After completing level 1 I had around 65 new lessons to complete. Was surprised and didn't feel I could complete that many fast.

But now I've gone through most of them (mostly vocabulary) and nearly all radicals of level 2. And it's not been too bad. I'm learning and I'm enjoying it so far.

Reviews have been going well.

Completed #WaniKani's level two. My reward? 104 new lessons 😆😅😥😆

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Took a bit longer than I thought, but level 4 here we are 🙂

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Completed one month of #WaniKani today. Definitely learning things. Sometimes I see written Japanese and can recognize some kanji.

For example yesterday I learned 気, ki. Later I passed by an Aikido dojo, and recognised that kanji, and I knew that the sound did make sense.

Another example, I saw some chopsticks on a restaurant. They had a sleeve with something handwritten on them. I was thinking "ah, calligraphy is too hard to understand" but then... "Oh, wait! That's the 竹 kanji! These are bamboo chopsticks, it makes sense!"

Checking some Mastodon posts in Japanese. I can at least grasp what may be the topic of a few.

Trying to follow a few accounts with relatively simple/short posts.

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Level 5 is taking forever to complete, because of the recent introduction of "today's lessons".

I understand why they did it and I kinda like the change and am trying it. But I had so many vocabulary still left from level 4 when the change hit that it delayed radicals and kanji from level 5.

I think the default 15 lessons per day may make sense for radicals/kanji, but for vocabulary maybe it's best to do more. Many are usually straightforward.

Anyway, nearly done with level 5, but a bit worried about the slowness.

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This #WaniKani mnemonic for 弟 cracked me up 😂

"You look at your younger brother. He's a scheming one. He's smiling up at you. Why? Because he's lit a firecracker on your foot. It explodes, sending your toe flying. You yell "OH. Toe? TOE!" (おとうと) as you realize what's going on."

Finally! Level 5 done! Level 6, here we go.

(Still a bunch of vocabulary from level 5 to complete)

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72 reviews this morning! 😧

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On the bright side: just reached level 7.

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Level 8, here I am! One step at a time.

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I love some little details in #WaniKani. For example some messages could always be the same, but actually they are different, such as the one below saying the vocabulary and kanji readings for "morning" are the same.

"The reading is the same as the one you learned with the kanji. Hopefully this means you won't have to wake up too early in the morning to study kanji, now."

I'm struggling a bit with remembering some meanings. My vocabulary meaning accuracy has fallen just below 99% for the first time. A bit concerned about it.

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It seems my 100th day of #WaniKani was two days ago.

I'm enjoying the journey so far. But I fear my brain will explode...

Nearly finished with level 8.

Just reached level 10 on #WaniKani.

Completing this one means the end of the "pleasant" levels. It's also on my objectives before I try to read the simplest #aozora book, for which this level should give me nearly enough vocabulary. After that I'm really interested in level 16.

Regarding level 9, it's the one that took me longer so far. Not because of its difficulty, but because I didn't manage to complete at least 10 lessons on some days as I usually do.

WaniKani's email reads "Level 10 is also a really good time to start learning grammar." Which is precisely what I've been thinking. I can now get the gist of sentences involving kanji and vocabulary I know, but I need to step up grammar to really understand things.

So I'll try to study more #genki.

Reached 1000 enlightened items!

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Level 11 baby!

From the congratulations email:

"You know 98.73% of the JLPT N5 kanji and 75.9% of the JLPT N4 kanji. You know 88.75% of the kanji Japanese kids learn in second grade. Even more impressively, you can read 65.75% of the kanji on NHK News Web Easy, 54.96% of the kanji that shows up on Twitter, and 54.1% of the kanji on Japanese Wikipedia. And, you’re still only 10 levels in!"

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I've just reached my first burned items at #WaniKani!

I'm fearful I may have forgotten things that are now going to be reviewed to become burned or not. Let's see...

I'm at level 12 btw. This level is taking longer than usual because I had to stop studying new cards for around a week, due to some events in life (I managed to more or less keep reviews up to date). But I'm back to studying now.

Finished level 12! Unto level 13!

Failed a few items that would be burned otherwise (a bit of a distraction there, but if they were actually burned wouldn't have happened, right?). Took me a while to remember 木 as もく yesterday (since it hasn't shown up a lot, I think).

Yesterday I picked up an old Japanese Shonen Jump I once got and tried to read a few things. Some are beyond my level, some others are understandable if (the gist of it) with some effort, some are relatively fast to read and have a good idea of what they mean.

I need to work more on grammar.

Anyway, progress!

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