Does Bunpro vocab replace Wanikani?

[tmoliter]

Ah, thank you for the suggestions! The podcast that I settled on was indeed Teppei… Love that guy! I really like the way he repeats variations of a phrase. I was putting 2 episodes on repeat back to back for like an hour a day, and that was good I think. It was just hard to get it into a habit… And once I hit a pair of episodes where I felt like I was still really struggling after a few days, I kind of dropped it.

I just took a peek at Comprehensible Japanese and that seems pretty neat, and suitably for total total beginners. Thanks for the suggestion, I will spend some focused time on that!

Oh yeah, I do read out loud, or when I don’t I mouth and mumble, but I don’t find that helps things stick in the way that hearing someone say it does. I know in English my ear is so used to certain rhythms and pitches and I don’t have that for Japanese so it feels kind of silly to try to say whole sentences out loud at this point too.

In any case, thanks for the suggestions!

[ultigonio]

ooh, that’s way more than I repeat Nihongo Con Teppei episodes, haha - I listen to them three times at most, and if I don’t get it, I don’t care, I’m moving on anyway. at least for me, letting go of any sense of perfectionism is the only way I get anything done when reading/listening

[Gabrielkarrer]

i really don t get why wanikani did add those kana words. They are important words, but you would have to not learn japanese to not know most of them already.

[jrmr50]

@ultigonio

letting go of any sense of perfectionism is the only way I get anything done when reading/listening

this is the way

in fact

@ultigonio

letting go of any sense of perfectionism

is sage advice

[IcyIceBear]

sorry, just realizing this is off the actual topic

Thisss is the way. When I listen to teppei I’m not usually doing anything else so I’ll add a playlist of 5or so at time. Throughout a single podcast I’ll rewind as many times as I need for words or phrases it feels like I should know but for whatever reason I can’t quite catch or remember, but usually not more than 4 15sec playbacks. When I do end up catching the missing part or suddenly remember the word it feels soooo good! But when I don’t, that’s okay too. I continue the podcast anyway and continue to the next. That’s what I love about teppei, theres just so many episodes I don’t feel pressured to use what there is “to the full extent” and understand 100%, because maybe listening comfortably without pressure is my full extent right now. Theres plenty more to listen to

After I go through the all of beginners archives I plan to listen to them randomly on a shuffle for easy listening days to take a break from hopefully if all goes well the more difficult podcasts I’ll be doing

[sergiop]

@ashe_xo

but there’s lots of lessons in wanikani that are pure katakana / hiragana, so it feels like there is crossover.

I hate the kana-only vocabulary and wish they were optional. But to say that there are lots is not correct. At WK, I’m lvl 60 so I got ALL this new kana-only words dumped on my lessons and I think they are about 50 or so. More than 99% of the vocabulary in WK has kanji. If not using WK, how are you going to learn kanji? Without kanji, how are you going to read interesting stuff?

[sergiop]

@ashe_xo

Yeah, I kind of wish I could cut out the vocab reviews that are unrelated to the kanji I’ve been learning from Wanikani, kind of feels like wasted time when I want to focus purely on Kanji.

For the kana-only that you already started there is no solution. But for any future you get in your lessons you can skip the lesson by using this script modification: [Userscript] WaniKani Lesson Filter - #309 by seanblue - API And Third-Party Apps - WaniKani Community

[Beiri]

Wanikani definitely gets better after level 10, not necessarily easier just something that becomes a routine. After level 10 the amount of new vocab and kanji remains relatively equal for every level after. Some will have more but often those levels are just compounds or kanji you know already.

I think if your goal is to learn japanese for communication bunpro alone will be enough at this point.

But wanikani is very helpful if you want to establish a broad knowledge of the written language and focus on reading and writing.