They say talking about your leeches helps you avoid them in the future, so here’s a question for you: What’s your worst leech, in terms of the sheer number of times you’ve gotten it wrong? What happened For me, it’s 人数, and it’s all about the reading. にんずう. About half the time it comes up, I’ve put…

I am sorry as I have no idea, but what is leech in WK terminology? Thanks!

sarahmno13: Also 大きさ. I don’t know how it’s not burned yet honestly Because size matters :eyes:

I don’t know, can’t remember.

丸ごと - still un-burned from level 4 - 219 attempts. I seem to botch the meaning always in spite of nearly perfectly getting the reading correct. It is coming up to burn again in 5 days - this time I get it right in its entirety. Behind that I have 本来, with 148 bad attempts and 生える from the same le…

[%E7%AF%84%E5%9B%B2%E3%82%92%E9%81%B8%E6%8A%9E_068] :thinking: So… none? At least in terms of WK vocab. In real life, I have troubles with the kun’yomi of 縁 (ふち, edge) (I had to look it up this time again). Without context, I also often confuse it with 緑 (みどり, green) Other stuff that I have bee…

A good topic related to this [image] Wall of Shame Fortune Telling - (Aka I think Wanikani is trying to tell me something) WaniKani So I was checking my profile, and I noticed something odd… [47 pm] Is Wanikani trying to tell me something? Even though I’ve reached leve…

Reading that made me go look it up once and for all (?) again :frowning: 就職 Settle in employment 就業 Settle in business you gotta go get “finding a job” to settle in to employment. you gotta be “employed” to settle into a business. Those explainations suck but maybe writing them will at least…

I just remembered 信用．．． I always get the reading right, but I never for the life of me remember if it means belief or trust…

含む - to include I have gotten the reading wrong 15 times [image] Keep thinking it’s かがむ

Just in case anyone wants to reply to this thread but doesn’t know how to check: https://wanikanitools-golang.curiousattemptbunny.com/ …whelp, it appears that 績 (せき, exploits) in 功績 is my biggest leech. The other similarly looking sekis have been slowly taking care of themselves since I made a poin…

What's your worst leech?

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jprspereira May 10, 2018, 3:28am 12

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