Wow guys I’m very surprised with the amount of insight and experiences everyone has shared. Most communities this type of post would be dead, but this was great! If the WK community is always this responsive I can’t wait to talk about future things as well. Thanks all.
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It depends a lot on the item, and I’ve definitely gotten faster as I’ve gone throughout more levels (half of learning is learning how to learn, so it gets much easier over time). Some items I never get wrong, it sticks during the lesson and it’s never an issue.
Some items I get wrong consistently and still do (particularly vocab, there are legitimately items from the 30s that have never been above master. I don’t know what my problem is.) So clearly being an idiot is a handicap. But I’d say with the average item I’ll get it wrong two or three times in the apprentice stage, and once it’s guru it more or less sticks. If you’re doing your reviews on time, that’s about a 7-8 day level.
Oh yeah the WK community’s overwhelmingly supportive and there are a ton of really smart and experienced people here, it’s a great resource to have as a lot of people keep giving advice long after they finish WK and are fluent in the language. I’m constantly asking advice lol
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It’s wildly variable for me. I have 4 categories of items.
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Previously Studied - These are things I have studied outside of Wani Kani, so if I can recall them there, I can usually recall them easier in Wani Kani. A lot of the time, I remember the meanings of kanji via words I already know.
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Story-able Items - These are new items that I can make easy mnemonics that I won’t soon forget. For instance, I recently started studying ban 晩 for night. While I’ve heard 晩ご飯 before, I still associate 夜 with evening/night more. Luckily, I had a good story for it. My Little Pony trigger warning:
“NIGHTmare Moon’s wants to BAN the SUN as an EXCUSE for the NIGHT to last Forever!”
Also for 材木 and 木材 (Lumber and Wood, respectively)
I’m a genuis! I’ll use LUMBER to make my house! Well, you want to do that, you have to cut the WOOD first, genius.
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Un-story-able Items - Sometimes, there’s not a really good way for me to remember the word or kanji because I either remember half the Wani Kani mnemonic or can’t figure out a good way to remember it with the 部首 in the kanji.
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Dyslexic Leeches - I am starting to think I have undiagnosed dyslexia or something else wrong with my memory. Usually, 使 and 作 are old ones that I still confuse 10 years after learning them from Genki I. 転 and 回 for rotate and revolve. Any word using 月’s げつ・がつ・ readings. I somehow will eventually lock the opposite meaning in my head down or gaslight myself to always get it wrong. If I second guess myself, I change it and get it wrong. If I am certain of myself, I misremembered it in the first place and get it wrong. I:ve taken Mastered items all the way down to Apprentice I this way. Damn my brain.
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