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burning kanji with wanikani

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Kokubunji, 2025.04.21

fourteen burned kanji and what do you get

I use this tool called WaniKani to practice kanji and vocabulary. They try to sneak in some cultural notes, but I do my best to ignore these. It takes months and months to "burn" (or finish) a single kanji but today I wiped out fourteen of them.

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You can sometimes fool the fans, but you can never fool the players.

—Jack Stack