I am trying to gauge if I am taking in too many new grammar points and vocabulary words per day.
My average correct percentage after a review hovers around 85%. Is that an okay ratio, or is it too low? If it’s too low, I might have to pause learning new words and grammar for a while.
Is there a way to check that?
I feel like 85% is okay, but you might want to slow down on the lessons if it drops further
N5: 81.0%
N4: 76.67%
N3 : 73.25%
N2: 70.83%
N1: 70.27%
Never really gave the percentage any thought, mostly just added more based on how difficult the grammar I was reviewing at the time felt.
Personally, I find it fluctuates between 65-90%.
If I have a lot of new items in the queue and I’m struggling through them all on a workday, it can bring the percentage down a bit. I kind of like the variety in each result!
In my initial go at Japanese, I think I went too fast and ended up regretting it.
So this second go-at-it I’m going at half the speed and I’m enjoying it more and I think is sticking better (could be bias since I have a bit more experience?).
But now I do half of what I did before in learning new vocabulary and grammar points and instead practice writing to make sure I understood things. I also do a tiny bit of listening practice, though this one is a struggle for sure.
This has done a few things for me:
So if you’re not 100A% in a hurry (for example you need it for a job), then I would slow down and spend a bit more time re-enforcing what you learn by actually using it.
If you’re in WaniKani level 3-4 you have a few basic vocabulary words you can use for that. If not I would focus on useful words: some common verbs and their negatives versions, days of the week, she/me/I/we/him/her, things like who/what/that/this
And a few places, convenience store, restaurant, party, park, mountain, river, ocean and objects, train,car, house, etc, then basic particles no, de, ka, to, ga etc…
Once I did that it was so much fun challenging myself to build more and more complex sentences.
Having said all that, I think you need to do what works best for you and your lifestyle. Sometime I have such busy weeks it is easiest to just do vocabulary and move on…
Would love to hear more about your experience in reading, writing and listening and where you stand vocabulary wise.
I recommend not thinking about correct answers ratio, and especially not comparing with others. Thinking only about score is like trying to brute force learning the language. All it really says is that if you remember given vocab/grammar. But do you truly understand it? Feel it? Know how to use it?
In the end it has to “just click”. These “aha!” moments. I can’t count all grammar points that I reviewed over and over, just to finally click at different time and place.
Everyone has their own pace. If you are not feeling tired or overwhelmed with the reviews, and are still enjoying the process, I would say you are good. And 85% sounds pretty good to me.
where do you see that?
That is strange
Yeah, I tried switching browsers but still the same error.
I’m pretty sure the stats page doesn’t account for vocab at the moment.
From my review sessions though, I’m pretty sure I’m usually around 90%.
It’s my first time looking at these stats. I imagine your accuracy on any given section will be higher when you first learn it, then lower after you move on, then higher again when you eventually master it. As a general rule, I feel that if you’re averaging under 70%, that’s probably too low. I would also advise using the cram feature if the reviews are not enough for you, and that will raise your accuracy in reviews.
I honestly like to look at my exp more than my percentage. you only get exp when you level up a review for the first time, so if I get any exp at all it tells me I’m making progress. And usually I always earn some exp at the end of a lesson. Being a perfectionist just ends up feeling like a waste of time and discourages me.
As long as your reviews aren’t piling up, I would recommend you keep going. There are gonna be some topics that take forever to wrap your head around, and then some that you get immediately. If you spend all your time perfecting hard to grasp material before moving on, you’ll miss out on equally important but relatively easier material. And the more you learn the easier it gets to wrap your head around the difficult stuff.
N5: 84.09%
N4: 85.56%
N3: 88.1%
