![]() What I’ll do after graduating in the summer I need something which allows me to just study for 20 minutes in the morning with a coffee next to me and maybe dedicate a few minutes in the evening as well. I’m not working with a computer and my workdays don’t allow me to check WaniKani in between. There is just way too much filler around your core incentive. But for someone who has to be time-efficient, it’s not the best choice. Tofugu is a great website and taking the idea behind Remembering the Kanji and wrapping it up into a neat little pre-made package for the Internet generation was a great idea. Answering the same item correctly four times in a row until you hit a two-day space. And the third one is about time commitment again: I feel their SRS intervals are too intense.Because of triceratops, grain, and yeah geoduck. The second quarrel is with their whole system: It works for many, yes, but I still think that making your own radicals and stories is the way to go.You need lots of time because you’re learning lots of Kanji and even more vocab of dubious practicality (which is more or less intended, I know).So maybe do the Heisig approach where you just learn a meaning for each Kanji so that you can safely recognize it and in a second step when you’re studying vocab you learn the readings automatically.Īfter spending a good amount of time with WaniKani I have a few problems with it: But never forget that this is all part of your study time. And while you’re at it you can learn the different readings as well. Its main purpose is to improve your Kanji reading so that you can instantly use that newly learned Kanji and put your reading skills to the test. The vocab you learn is not always the most useful. Or maybe an idea: Be presented with a whole sentence and you just have to input (that’s how WK works) the underlined word. Yes, WaniKani has some sample sentences in the notes but I would really prefer to learn whole sentences instead. A good idea so that you can instantly practice what you just learned.īut how useful is learning vocabulary out of context? Not very much in my opinion. WaniKani is full of Japanese vocab consisting of the newly taught Kanji. And when you actually encounter them in the wild you’ll probably have more than a few instances where you can remember the basic meaning you learned but it just doesn’t make any sense in that sentence. But WaniKani is taking hours over hours to teach you words that you probably won’t use. Good things take time and it’s always better to study slowly and consistently instead of just rushing through the content. If you don’t have the feeling of making real progress you’ll quickly lose interest and will probably quit. You can’t do everything at once and of course, you want to see some results. As I previously wrote you have to be wary about how you spend your study time. Now on to the second problem: The time it takes to finish WaniKani. It may work for many but it didn’t really work for me because the stories just became more and more abstruse the further I came. And even writing your own stories in the note section is not really convenient because it’s just barely visible when doing your reviews.Īnd it’s not intended to be used like this as well. You can always change the stories about each Kanji and just write them as a little note under each card but you can’t change the radical names. And that’s where the convenience of WaniKani becomes a problem. The radical names, the stories, and because everybody has such a different background I never really liked most of their radical names. ![]() The whole idea of that radical approach isn’t new and was first introduced by James Heisig’s fantastic book “Remembering the Kanji”. The OG: Remembering the Kanji by James Heisig What I’ll do after graduating in the summer.The OG: Remembering the Kanji by James Heisig.
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