Hi guys, I’ve been using WaniKani for about 3 months and have learned more kanji in those three months than I have in my 7 years of study. Now my biggest problem I’m facing is that I like using WaniKani so much I feel like I’m lacking in every other area.
For instance, with reading, I can read a lot better now but it still takes me a good few minutes to get through an average paragraph.
With writing, I can’t for the life of me remember how to write the kanji I learned on WaniKani because they just don’t teach you writing at all.
With Speaking and comprehension, I feel like I’m making slight improvements, but I just haven’t found a platform I like to use for this.
Any suggestions?
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Skritter Japanese is an app that I use and it’s a good way to learn the kanji strokes. They have a “deck” that pulls straight from WaniKani too. There’s also an app called Kanji Study which I have but haven’t used which might also help with stroke order.
I’ve seen other threads mention satori reader and a bunch of free resources that have vocab/kanji close to the level you’re at.
Good luck!~
If you’re goal is also to write the kanji, maybe each time it comes up on WK you write it or something? I think there is an add on with TamperMonkey that shows stroke order but I don’t remember the name
The fact that you noticed it isn’t enough is a great first step. One guy finished all of wanikani and never studied any grammar. I feel real bad for him. All though, if he did study grammar at that point he would be golden, bc he’d know all the words he’d ever need.
literally don’t bother with writing, you won’t need to. highly recommend bunpro for grammar for wk users since you can limk your wk account and it’ll turn off furigana for all kanji you know, which makes it excellent reading practice. beyond that just read and watch tv and stuff a lot to reinforce what you’re learning
(i have a [review](https://youtu.be/hBOj45xt0vI) if you’re interested)
I can’t speak for anyone else, but I’ve recently added renshuu to my studies (I was previously doing WK daily and only occasionally picking up my genki textbook) , and it’s been very helpful in filling in many of the gaps in my study routine. I’ve managed to keep daily studying going for longer than I’ve previously managed.
I’ve been reading short stories from Satori Reader to get used to reading japanese everyday. It’s a subscription service, but I really don’t think I’ll be using it more than a few months. It links too with WK, so known kanji will be properly used.
Also I’m watching Cure Dolly’s course on the side.
I mean, of course WaniKani will never be enough.
You improve what you practice. If you’re staying on WaniKani just to be safe rather than challenging a variety of content, it makes sense you’re not as comfortable with longer paragraphs. I don’t use WaniKani personally, but from what I’ve seen, lengthy paragraphs isn’t actually in the curriculum. Same thing with the writing and conversational stuff.
If you have an Android phone or tablet, install JA Sensei app.
It will give you both kanji recognition quizzes, and kanji writing ones.
It had also vocabulary and aural comprehension sections.
try Satori Reader for reading practices