![]() ![]() I think everyone navigates the intermediate plateau differently with personal goals in mind. Others will feel a mountain of unknown vocab that is scrambled to retain both reading and listening comprehension so SRS helps a lot and there are creative ways to utilize it other than just vocab…then you can close the gap a bit better for on native material. If you have awesome retention to pick up vocab or have a passion for reading and willing to do ALOT of dictionary look ups, go for it. You’ll surprise yourself with your gains!Īnd do you think kitsun is necessary if i listen to and read articles and shows?Įveryone is different and I’m still a student of the language. Even if it’s only once or twice, that will greatly boost your memory of those items.īut keep trying new things and working in more study techniques that work for you. You’ll start to hear a word from WaniKani or a grammar point from Bunpro. The real gains come in how these two tracks cross-pollinate. You won’t understand a thing at first (and you’ll probably feel frustrated for a while), but this is the part that actually gets you to fluency. I strongly recommend you start listening to content intended for native speakers, like NHK or Japanese YouTube videos or untranslated anime or video games. The top-down front is where you learn Japanese by actually using it the way you want to someday: listening speaking reading writing. That way, it feels like I’m just expanding WaniKani. I personally add flashcards for words that I encounter if I’ve hit Guru in the kanji. I’d also recommend japanese.io and/or Anki for making flashcards out of the many, many words that WaniKani doesn’t have. The bottom-up front is what WaniKani and Bunpro are for. But it does take a lot of time and effort to get to that point (I got to lv 60 after about 450 days, roughly 1 1/2 years, and I was doing 300+ reviews daily by the time I hit lv 45)Īs those above me said, the two of them are great together, but the best way to really learn Japanese is on two fronts: “top-down” and “bottom-up.” ![]() ![]() I think learning the kanji helped me get into the vocab learning a lot better. I think the WaniKani interface is very satisfying, and I don’t regret my kanji proficiency from sticking with it at all. I suppose it depends on your priorities as a learner. In my prime, I used torii vocab to fill in the WK cracks while using BunPro and WaniKani, but that was a crazy amount of work and I burned out only after a few months. IIRC you don’t even learn days of the week until level 18! Additionally, there are a lot of katakana and hiragana-only words that will be important to learn, and you don’t really get that from WK. The program is structured towards the kanji, so you won’t necessarily learn N5 vocab with the kanji you learn in level 5. That being said, while WaniKani is super ( super) useful for learning kanji, you aren’t learning vocab as fast with it. In my study journey, I found the two quite effective together, especially with how BunPro lets you use your WK API to hide the furigana on the kanji you’ve learned in WK. ![]()
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