About a month ago I came back to studying Japanese and I've been doing good to avoid burnout which I have a big problem with. I started Wanikani back up and caught up on reviews and am now starting level 3. I saw that people also recommended the Kaishi 1.5k deck, and a lot of those people recommended using both Wanikani and Kaishi is a good idea but is it really? I've been doing the Kaishi deck for about a week or two now and it feels like most the kanji I'm seeing isn't actually sticking where as Wanikani feels like it is and I'm getting a lot out of it. I also find myself in an area where I can recognize the reading of the kanji but then just totally forget the meaning. Not to mention reading the sentence bails me out of recognizing the kanji most the time.
I know it's quite personal on what works best but if this is normal and people would recommend to push through it and in the long-term I'll see the results, I'll continue to do so. It can just be hard because to me I thought Anki was valuable for vocab so going to see that another big thing with Kaishi is recognizing the kanji it threw me off.
For reference I'm getting through Genki 1 on my own around Lesson 9 as well as dedicating some time to immersion like playing videogames I enjoy in Japanese like Animal Crossing, even if I don't understand almost everything I'm just forcing my brain to pick it up.
Apologies if this question has been asked a lot in the sub, I seemed to just find a lot of people recommending the two of them but I'm having conflicting issues with if Kaishi is even providing anything for me
by Primary-Law842