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My Experience So Far - subkulture - 2013-05-07
My experience so far has left me feeling like Wilbur Mercer and my progression has had as many ups and downs as a roller coaster. The one constancy I've maintained is never failing to complete all reviews.
The main reason I found I'd have trouble and skip adding kanji some days or doing less than I planned is I hate coming up with the stories since a vast majority of the stories people give are awful a lot don't even contain the keyword. The choice usually left is spend a lot of time thinking up a really good story that makes sense or settle for making up a story involving doublethink in which the latter is usually the case.
RTK has only 3 ironclad rules the order, coming up with stories and imagining them play out. Out of these the easiest to control is the stories since as far as imagining them goes you can only ensure you give yourself enough time for each one. So my biggest problem has been motivation to do the stories as well as maintaining the quality of them which can only be done by making the experience more pleasant. I managed to resolve this problem with inspiration from RTK by splitting making the stories and adding kanji into separate processes.
I now add a few hundred stories at about 50 per day during which time I don't add new kanji and once I reach that goal I begin adding new kanji again and stop adding stories till I've caught up and then repeat. This way I find it much easier and the quality of my stories has improved a lot because once I'm in the zone I just keep going as long as I can. Though of course you need to keep in mind adding 50-100 stories in a day isn't the same as adding that many kanji however overall It's increased my vigor and the amount of kanji I'm able to add while making the whole experience more pleasant. This translates into the kanji being remembered better because of the improved quality.
Has anyone else learned techniques like this that have helped them?
My Experience So Far - Animosophy - 2013-05-07
I decided not to be too picky unless the story poorly reflected the actual meanings of the kanji, or the keyword itself wasn't accurate, in which case I decided to use several different keywords straight from an online dictionary. I was satisfied with most stories from this site (some are actually quite funny/impressive) and take between 3-5 hours on 100 new cards. I'd take longer if I felt like punching every kanji into jisho and look at the vocab lol
Sounds like you've got things in order, I don't doubt you'll finish RTK quickly
