I don’t believe there is a way to automate it here on the forums. As far as I know they don’t have individual api keys on discourse. I’m also not super familiar with the deeper ins and outs of it though.
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Well, basic is not that hard to get, I believe you should take a few minutes to get it 
Here are the requirements:
- Entering at least 5 topics
- Reading at least 30 posts
- Spend a total of 10 minutes reading posts
You only need the first requirement, as you already have the other two, and you’ve only posted here so far.
Thanks! I’m not really happy with the last kanji, though, I believe the scooter radical (idk if that’s the actual name lol, it’s the WK name of the radical) will become my new worst enemy 
(though it’s pretty cool to write it)
2024-03-05T15:00:00Z
Studied
- Anki reviews
- 漢検漢字学習ステップ５級
New kanji
窓，創，装，層，操，蔵， 臓
I realized that doing a 4/3 split was dumb and didn’t fit my brain exactly. It helps me to have a clean stopping point and definite progress. So I just focused on doing reviews and then learning new kanji. Tomorrow I will do reviews and do the practice problems for the new kanji I learned today. As a side effect, I actually had more time to slow down and research each 用例 for the kanji, which actually helps me think about them a little bit more deeply and of course exposes me to new words. This might be for the better!
@Jake Thanks for the response. I understand.
@NeoArcturus Thanks for sharing. I’ll do it when I have time! What are you calling the scooter radical? I beg you – please learn the real radical names so you only have to do it once and not twice. 
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Yeah, that’s probably a good idea Luckily, I can add user synonyms on WK…
This is the “scooter”-radical: https://www.wanikani.com/radicals/scooter
I believe I saw a list somewhere in the WK forums that compared the made-up-by-WK names of radicals with their real names, Imma search for that.
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Ah! しんにょう・しんにゅう!
Yeah lol it feels cool to finish with a flourish, like a signature!
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Ayyyyyy looking good!!
I can see the struggle with the first two strokes 
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well the first two strokes are 点 I hope they look fine! lol but yeah 弓 always gives me trouble, especially when it’s part of a larger kanji.
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Yesterday, I finished the level 5 kanji on WK, which means I’m 1/3 through my backlog.
I had a pretty hard time trying to write 考 lol
(Yesterday’s pratice starts at 兄）
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I went down the rabbit hole on kanji writing around this time last year. Really fun but I still couldn’t remember anything afterwards!
Anyway something that helped for me to improve was changing how I hold the pen and my sitting posture. I would hold the pen tightly and slanted on a diagonal in the direction of writing left to right. I loosened my grip, changed the angle so its more vertical, made my posture more upright. All tips I got from watching some youtube videos and a magazine I got from Japan by this beautiful handwriting guru whom I have a massive crush on…
Haven’t written any kanji ages, I did love it but it’s such a timesink
But be warned, you start seeing how it’s properly done with the brush pen and then you’ll realise what good really looks like compared to your own efforts.
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Yes, but that doesn’t mean a literal dot. See below. I agree, 弓’s balance is a bit hard to get.
Your 何 is 
! 
Too late, I already know how bad my kanji looks!
It’s surprising how those little details make such a big difference. When I get more time, I’m going to go to real classes so I can get an instructor to help me with those things.
Thanks for sharing a good resource. She’s a babe!
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2024-03-06T15:00:00Z
Studied
- Anki reviews
- 漢検漢字学習ステップ５級
No new kanji
My day was off from the beginning… didn’t get the timing right and I couldn’t get my mind in the right place to study what I wanted. I was able to do all of my reviews and the step exercise section, but I wasn’t able to review the ones I got wrong and research words that came up that I didn’t know.
This is yesterday’s kanji, so today I will do my reviews and then review the ones I got wrong from yesterday (look at all of that orange 
). I may have to carve out two hours of time and slow down a bit. First hour for reviews, second hour for the day’s task (learning new kanji or doing and reviewing practice problems). I need to be in a state of mind where I feel like I have all the time in the world to do the task. Rushing and trying to squeeze it in during the workday doesn’t do me any good.
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Had some quite interesting kanji yesterday.
- 後: This is probably the first kanji that I ever tried to handwrite, even though I wasn’t doing any handwriting practice back then and probably got the stroke order terribly wrong lol
- 国: I found an awesome pun (?) regarding this kanji on the WK forums!
- 死: This kanji is the reason why Japanese fear the number 4: It’s pronounciation as a word is し, just like it is for 四 (homonym)
I had some serious struggles with 地 
In fact, I have struggles with all kanji that have the 也 radical lol
I might need to slow down, because now that the kanji are getting more strokes, my handwriting sessions are getting longer and longer, so I might adjust my pace to 3 days per level.
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Between this thread and several other kanji threads on here, I might have to get back into regular handwriting sessions! Not that I was regularly practicing to begin with… But still, I do have a few special Campus notebooks that I’m using for kanji practice.
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I didn’t do any handwriting practice yesterday because I participated in the weekly Atomic chess arena on Lichess. Got a pretty good place though, I ended in the top 20 with just one hour of playing!
I love how I have the same rating and the same score like the 20th place, but played way less games
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(Ignoring the obvious one) 夜 is clean AF! Wow 
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2024-03-10T15:00:00Z
Studied
- Anki reviews
- 漢検漢字学習ステップ５級
New kanji
存，尊，退，宅，担，探，誕，段
Missed quite a few days. Finally got to it this early morning. Reviews + new kanji.
Tomorrow will do reviews + exercises!
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2024-03-11T15:00:00Z
Studied
- Anki reviews
- 漢検漢字学習ステップ５級
No new kanji
Back down to exactly one hour for this morning’s review. It doubles my time to get through a book, but I prefer it this way right now!
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whoever suggested that “Learn Kanji!” app, thank you. It’s actually far better than I anticipated. It doesn’t have that frustrating 2 hour wait after first learning it. (I always forget way before then, personally I would prefer a review 10 minutes after, 20 minutes after, 1 hour after, then what bunpro does as of now)
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