Why is WaniKani worth using beyond lvl 15-20?

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@lschneider

B) Prioritize the Kanji and vocab required for a basic core.

I mean, WaniKani teaches most of the Standardized kanji (There are 2136 Standard Kanji Jōyō kanji - Wikipedia) so I don’t know how that could get anymore “core”. I have seen others who have made it to level 60 say that there are many uncommon words near the last few levels, but that isn’t to say they don’t ever come up at all.

@lschneider

Here is my experience so far: Wanikani is a Japanese learning software that offers to teach roughly 1700 Kanji and 5000 vocab words in one to two years.

WaniKani actually teaches 2055 Kanji and 6360 Vocabulary, which is a non-negligible amount greater than what you claimed (maybe your sources are outdated?)

@lschneider

Okay, so I’ll sentence-mine topics of interest once I have a basic core from Wanikani (Lvl15-20 so I’ve read thus far). I’ll continue Wanikani even after though so I can take the JLPT.”

Despite its large selection of Kanji and vocab, Wanikani is not a good resource for studying for the JLPT as their flows don’t really match. Furthermore, some vocab on the JLPT simply isn’t included in Wanikani.

AFAIK WaniKani doesn’t claim to be a JLPT study service, nor does it claim to prepare anyone for the JLPT.

I agree that sentence mining should be done in tandem with WaniKani to broaden vocabulary around your own interests, but I disagree that WaniKani isn’t worth it past lvl15-20 since there is still a lot to be gained from the other 2/3 of the levels.

I’ve found a few userscripts that may interest you:

[UserScript] Advanced Context Sentence

Advanced Context Sentence We all know Wanikani’s weakness, context sentences. I bet many of us just skip them entirely most of the time. This script enhances the context sentences by introducing two features: Recognizable Kanji Highlighting Highlighting the kanji you already learned and should be able to recognize. this will encourage you to read the context sentence just to try and remember all the kanji you learned in it. Forgot the kanji? just click on it and you will be taken to the ka…

[Userscript] WaniKani Sentences

WaniKani SentencesI have written a userscript which will annotate items with: A set of sample sentences taken from Tatoeba Note: Because I don't do any kind of word detection (to make everything faster), it may show some sentences that contain a word where the current word is a subset. For example, if 大人しい is in the sentence and you are looking at the word 大人, it will match the sentence anyway. It will also not find words that are commonly written in kana only (such as 美味しい). Features Display sa…