The 'Who's super exited about WaniKani' Thread

[kanjiman8Member]

Just read some of the comments on the WaniKani article on Tofugu, and Koichi says there will be a yearly and monthly membership choice on offer. I’d still prefer it if there is a forever option like there is here on TF though.

[Tom JensenMember]

Wow, thanks for all the feedback guys. I think I’m gonna try RTK over my two free months for summer, hit em’ hard and get ‘er done. And KanjiDamage looks pretty darn entertaining, I think that might just be my backup plan. Even if all fails I can still look forward to the wonky TextFugu style of teaching in WaniKani. Thanks for the help :D

Edit: And I completely agree with KanjiMan… Monthly payments are my arch-nemesis. Yearly is kinda better maybe? But I really don’t see why they can’t just do forevah.

• This reply was modified 12 years, 7 months ago by  Tom Jensen.

[kanjiman8Member]

Yeah, a yearly memberhsip will be better than monthly and hopefully work out cheaper too. Also, the nice thing about having a forever membership aside from not having to worry about payments again, is the option to log on whenever you want to refer back to things.

With a monthly or yearly membership, you may decide to cancel once you’ve finished everything and don’t feel it’s worth continue to pay money if you won’t be on the site much.

[Tom JensenMember]

It’s really just a convenience thing for me, but it is true that I probably wouldn’t even use the site after a year.

[MisterM2402 [Michael]Member]

With RTK, I found it started off really interesting and fun, that I had plenty of motivation to plough through them. Then as it got around the middle, it started getting a little tedious and a bit of a slog, but I stuck with it anyway. Around the end, motivation spiked again as I was so close to finishing and achieving the goal :D The feeling when you’re done and kanji stops being big black blobs on the page/screen is just immense :)

[Tom JensenMember]

Sadly, It sounds like something I would enjoy XD

Just to get things straight though, you guys would recommend only going through the first book and leaving the readings for later?

[LukeMember]

There’s still quite a lot of kanji I forget despite doing RTK, it’s the more “busy” ones that catch me out, give it another month of reviewing every day and I’ll probably be just fine though. I’ve been posting a lot on Lang-8 so by actually using kanji that helps me remember them much better too.

• This reply was modified 12 years, 7 months ago by  Luke.

[LukeMember]

I’m a bit concerned thinking about it now actually, if the kanji section of this website is still going to be getting updated, along with this new site, doesn’t that mean new lessons will take even longer? I guess it doesn’t bother me too much but seems a legitimate concern!

[HashiMember]

WaniKani really shouldn’t delay anything on TextFugu, because the two sites share pretty much all the same information for kanji. In fact, the recent major overhaul of the kanji on TextFugu was mostly because of WaniKani, not despite it.

[LukeMember]

Great!

[kanjiman8Member]

@ Hashi
That’s good news. Do you and Koichi have any date penciled in when you think wanikani will be complete and ready to use?

[HashiMember]

I don’t know of any firm date yet, but Viet would know much better than me.

[Tom JensenMember]

Probably the same answer, but what about the beta testing dates?

[kanjiman8Member]

Haven’t seen Viet post on the forums before. Just seen him in some of the vids on youtube :D. Is there a way to contact him?

[MisterM2402 [Michael]Member]

@Tom: Yeah, just the first book would suffice. The 3rd book has another 1000 or so kanji, but it’s really not necessary – any kanji I come across that weren’t in book one are learned pretty easily. Don’t even need to come up with new mnemonics or flash card them, I just remember the radicals and the word they’re in :)

@Hashi: So does WaniKani work in *conjuction* with TF’s kanji section, or is it an alternative, or…?

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