You know you’ve been WKing when

Yeah, I use the overdue script now to go through vocab.

…when you let out squeals of delight, do a double thumbs up when you get a correct answer on a review item you didn’t confidently know the answer for.

Glad I live by myself, so nobody can see me acting like that.

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That’s me right there. On duolingo forums too. :joy:

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I’m glad I live by myself so no one can hear me try to pronounce katakana words out loud to try to understand what they mean. Because even I realize that I sound completely ridiculous as an English speaker trying to say English words in a Japanese way.

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if i have that correct you could say かいまるまるする or かい○○する and it’s “perfectly japanese”? i forgot where i picked that up but i do it in my head so maybe someone can confirm or deny? :smile:

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You know you’ve been WKing when

Things in your surroundings start to look like kanji

Sticks pilled up: That looks like 本
Marks in the dirt: That looks like 猫
Scribbles on a paper: That looks like 水

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You can also say
かい なになに する
かい ほにゃらら する
かい なんちゃら する

I think the second two are more casual and colloquial…?

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oh! Many ways to express the same thing :eyes: :+1:

Should be ほにゃらら :slight_smile:

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Ah, thanks for the correction :+1:t4:

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That definition… “something something; something” :stuck_out_tongue:

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Derp :woman_facepalming:t2: ありがとうございます。Edited :+1:t4:

Happens to me all the time. I wish there was a wanikani for hanzi, at least for pronunciation

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Oh yeah. It happens a lot on my phone, where space-swipe switches languages

Doubly true for native German speakers (writers) like me, because German uses QWERTZ but US and Japanese use QWERTY. Also known as the “German kezboards are annozing!” lament.

All the times I’ve typed ず when I meant to type ゆ or produced gibberish or いぇ (failed ぜ → ye)… those hurt! :sweat_smile:

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I agree, pandanese is pricy and not really that good, I will keep looking.

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Reads as Koichi is awesome.

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Well, Koichi 先生 is awesome!
Kimchi is awesome too, but in a very different way :yum:

P. S. Sorry, I’meowt of likes :cat2:

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