If you’re going at 10 days/level or slower (15 lessons per day), you don’t reallly need lesson scripts.
If you’re planning on going faster than that, they can make things more convenient.
I think that could only happen if your lesson ordering in your settings is set to shuffled. Personally i like “Ascending level then subject”, but it has been argued that “Ascending level then shuffled” could increase retention because it makes things harder on your brain.
You can see what WaniKani advices in the screenshot below.
Use either of the “ascending level” options and that shouldn’t happen
Edit:
Also, you level up with only 90% of the kanji on Guru.
So if you struggled with a kanji and didnt get it to guru for a while, the vocab for that kanji also won’t be unlocked until later.
I wouldn’t worry about this kind of backlog though.
Just double-checked it to make sure that I didn’t mess with it because I read the blurb about “we like this way best” from WaniKani. I haven’t but I did get lvl3 lessons a couple of days into lvl5 (to be born, to give birth, to live, one’s life, fresh)
Another clarification - I have no issue with all the vocab - I think it’s great to be learning so much. I would just really like to somehow stop the backlog issue when I level up because it is a lot to remember while my grammer is non-existent at the very early beginner stage
Since these are all vocab items using the life kanji 生 I’d assume that you got that one wrong once or twice before it was guru’ed.
Since a vocab item is only unlocked once all the kanji in it have been guru’ed, they showed up when you were level 5.
You don’t need to worry about this kind of backlog though.
This is one of the reasons I decided to do WK. I was studying for the JLPT and realized that I needed to not only study the single kanji, but the vocab they are used in. It also usually helps with remembering kanji too…Although when you get the ones that don’t use standards readings it can be frustrating, but necessary. Those are the ones that will trick you.
Hard agree. Oddly, I found a bunch of the vocab in early levels hard: some of it is very common words where the meaning has got distorted over time, or general concepts that are hard to pin down.
Once you get to around level 12 or 13, the vocab becomes much easier to remember, both because it’s more concrete and because your brain has got used to how kanji meanings make up words. So, for example, “war vehicle” is “tank” and “disease institution” is “hospital”.
I stalled a bunch of times around where you are because the kanji were getting harder but the vocab weren’t any easier and my retention suffered. Stick it out to level 13!
