Discovered and started to use #WaniKani this week. Seems like a fresh approach compared with #Anki, which I've used for some periods in the past to learn kanji.
From Mastodon I just learned about #LearnNatively which seems will come in handy.
I'm planning a trip to #Japan later this year and I'd like to learn as much as possible by then.
I feel I should join some classes, but unsure which. Any recommendations? I've heard of #italki.
Any interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon as well? Maybe some with some simple posts in Japanese?
PS: Is #Duolingo worth it? Always seems too slow/easy.
#WaniKani is having their annual sale! Between now and January 4, 2024, you can get $100 off a WaniKani Lifetime membership. Which means you can take your sweet, sweet time learning over 2,000 kanji and over 6,000 #Japanese vocabulary words. https://www.wanikani.com/sale
I'm about to get my first burned items (radicals from Level 1), so technically I should be around the peak of number things that I need to keep in short term memory at the same time! With that in mind, I had what I think of as, a "restructuring" week. A lot of kanji/vocabulary has similar pronunciation so had to slow down to 10 new lessons per day and make a lot of mistakes, but all to get a more solid picture of kanjis!
New kanji and vocab certainly became less general, but at the same time I already found some words useful in my lessons with an italki teacher.
My SRS buckets are doing alright, and my Burned count is approaching my Enlightened count, which is very thrilling to watch! Overall, it sounds like I'm 35% through the WaniKani's content.
Grammar work didn't stop either, but the progress there is at steady slow pace as I planned.
It's funny how the new words that I learn seem to just to crop up into the books and lessons. Seeing them makes me excited and helps a lot in memorizing them since I had to use them outside of wanikani already!
One thing that I do begin to wonder, if I could expand number of nouns that I know. My teacher often asks me to come up with an example sentence, and I feel like I'm using the same nouns all over again…
I've been struggling to keep correct answers at 90% lately. As in, I think I hit it in general, but I was often on the edge of not making it. Partly this is due to some new confusing words (警察庁 and 警視庁 are good examples), partly because the way I memorized some previous kanji didn't generalize and had to be revisited in the light of new similar kanji that I learned.
It has been exactly 1 year since I began “serving the Crabigator”. What an adventure!
Halfway through level 25 #wanikani has switched their lessons system, but apparently it didn't take me much longer to finish the level and now most of the vocab from 25 is already studied, which is quite unusual!
I've set my batch to 4 items so that I get 12 lessons per day (20% more than before), and I really enjoy that they mix in kanji/radicals into mostly vocab batches!
SRS buckets are healthy, but I studied only 10 new grammar items! :blobcatsob:
I'll be honest, this level was a bit tough. I think it might be 12 reviews per day versus 10 that I had previously, but it remains to be seen. Lots and lots of useful words and kanji, and slow, but steady progress towards the goal! (Immediate goal - level 40)
The SRS buckets are roughly where they were, and I can’t believe that I got almost 100 items burned in past couple of weeks!
I'm very glad that #wanikani has introduced a new setting to set the total amount of lessons per day (in addition to batch size). Switching from 10 to 12 lessons per day resulted in subjectively higher error rate and bucket sizes, and looking back I don't believe it was sustainable.
Comparing my bucket values to the last level I see that they are not much worse, but it felts way more intense!
As a positive aside, it became easier to converse with my teacher!
10 lessons per day works wonderfully. I didn't expect that 20% difference would put as much as strain on me as it did, but 10 seems to be just right for a balanced study.
I feel like I'm getting much comfortable with reading text in Japanese, because I know much more kanji now! In fact, during one of the lessons I didn't know the meaning of the word, but teacher dared me to guess it based on kanji and I managed!
Level 30 of #wanikani !! Big milestone, although I'm not quite out of the "Death" level yet.
10 lessons per day still works best for me, and it feels like a decent progress was made! 154 new burned items, and master/enlightened is roughly where it was. Given that it has been 16 days I guess I'm burning items with 96% accuracy. However, my review sessions are around 90% most of the time, which is curious.
Got a bit of a progress on grammar as well, even learned an N1 point! (なりに）.
The highlight of this level comes from yesterday where I learned the word “子孫” ("descendant") and immediately encountered it in 鬼滅の刃 (Demon Slayer manga). This goes to show how useful studying kanji has been for me!
I made tons of mistakes this run, but lots of my guru stuff moved to master/enlightened. Let's see how it changes at level 33!
For the grammar I'm very excited to finally burn some items there! It still takes effort to read anything, but less than before!