bebio Wrote:I reached 628, but even if I try to do 100 per day, my eyesight will resent. so, I'm doing it slower now, with more brakes in between to rest my eyes. My mind could keep up with the 100 mark, but I can't run the risk of having to buy glasses earlier than expected lol. So I'll do a maximum of 50 per day (probably a bit less), and give a brake of 1 or 2 days after finishing around 100 Kanjis, and do some reviews to consolidate what I have learned before moving on to the next ones.

lanval Wrote:Im around 630. But going soooo slow. Even when I had holidays I never got to 30 a day. All the reviewing, and then making up stories for all the difficult stuff just takes ages for me. Still, even if I find good stories, I forget them at first.. So depressing.

lanval Wrote:Thanks!
I also found 3 days too long and switched to Mnemosyne. I know new ones are the toughest, but why the heck do I also forget really old ones I had right 3 or 4 times already? Shouldnt I have about 95% on those?

Po0py Wrote:I thought I'd jump in here to say I've just reached 550.

I find the reviewing system on this site a little too spaced, as well. So I gave it up entirely in favour of Anki. In fact I do my initial studies in a completely different way to any methods I've seen on these forums. (I've lurked here for ages.) Here is how I do it:

Anki's has an awesome feature called Cram Mode. Each day I'd have about 50 new stories tagged as 'cram' and suspended and I'd put them Cram mode and un-suspend kanji in groups of five. I've found that five is about the most efficient way of committing them to memory and then releasing them into the wild. After I've got the first five correct a few times it should be an hour or so before I see them again so I un-suspend the next five. Repeating over and over again. Usually I only do about 20-30 a day but there is no reason why you couldn't go higher.

I use two copy's of a Heisig deck of 3007 kanji that some nice person has uploaded to the Anki wiki page so this saves a lot of time. I use one copy solely for cramming and the other deck for long term SRS. After the first day I'd unlock the same kanji in my other long term SRS deck and let it take over. So basically I'm using cram mode to gently ease each kanji out of my short-term memory (first 12 hrs) and into my long-term memory.

Everybody has their own method that works for them. I think after the first 300-400 or so kanji you'll probably have a routine locked down because it works for you. So for those people who are still experimenting with their study routines I thought I'd throw my method out there.

lanval Wrote:I wonder if you can have "cram" function by just taking "1" a few times, until you are sure you know a kanji. I just dont get anki, and already worked too long with Mnemosyne after all.

Po0py Wrote:

lanval Wrote:I wonder if you can have "cram" function by just taking "1" a few times, until you are sure you know a kanji. I just dont get anki, and already worked too long with Mnemosyne after all.

Not exactly sure what you are saying there. I think the whole point of cramming is to do multiple cards in a short period of time. Although I've adapted it simply to use the short spaced SRS algorithm just to get the newest Kanji set in my mind.

Walden Wrote:I've just hit 500 ^^. Having quit once already I thought it was impossible. But it feels like I've done so little work and it will be a piece of cake.

yukkuri_kame Wrote:Hashiriya's RTK lists over at iKnow have been a vital part of my recovery, jogging my memory quite effectively using the brainspeed game to dust of the neurons.

stoked Wrote:500 kanjis, 500 pictures.

frlmarty Wrote:what would this be?

maybe could you post a link ?

thank you!