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Most difficult part - kyotokanji - 2007-05-25
For those of you who have finished the book RTK1 or are most of the way through, what was the most difficult part of the book. I'm on Ch 23 now and i'm having a hard time. Is this normal? All those fingers and hands in so many images are causing me some difficulties. So i'm taking my time with this one.
Most difficult part - synewave - 2007-05-25
For me, the most difficult part/aspect was keeping going. I didn't worry too much if stuff didn't stick first time. Some characters that I thought I would never be able to recall have now fallen into place nicely. I'm an advocate of astridtops' "dirty method".
As for fingers, even though I've only seen it once AND thought it was crap, I use Shrek in loads of my stories. Nice and vivid.
Most difficult part - kyotokanji - 2007-05-25
For the primitive of fingers I have a rather obscene image which i'm sure you can guess. Works for quite alot of them but not all.
Most difficult part - ziggr - 2007-05-25
Lesson 27 "person" is where I finally gave up and shelved the book, many years ago. Choosing a memorable person was key, and I chose poorly. Fabrice's Mr. T works so, so much better.
Somewhere in the 1200-1300 range, I hit a wall. RTK demanded too much time for daily review, once all four review stacks were pumping 20-30 expired orange cards into my daily workflow. This forced me to split my review sessions into two separate sessions each day.
Slow progress can be difficult. If I didn't progress fast enough after a while, I'd do the math and realize that it would take me 1+ year to finish, and then poof! There goes my motivation. my post in the What do you wish you'd known when you were starting out? thread is a reaction to this.
Most difficult part - alantin - 2007-05-25
I can only imagine what it is like to start over when you have once already reached the frame 1200! I have had to start over a couple of times after "hitting the wall" somewhere near the frame 400 and that SUCKS!
So this time I'm going to heed your advice!
Most difficult part - akrodha - 2007-05-25
I can see what you mean. I'm into the 1600s, but around the early thousands I felt like the book was becoming "harder" or something. Sometimes I had trouble coming up with good mental images that made sense.
But looking back, I don't think any one lesson was harder than another. It's just a matter of seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, and even smelling the primitives. I figure that after a thousand stories, my brain kinda got tired and tried to streamline the process by coming up with lazy stories. These stories never lasted and I found myself with many failed kanji.
If you're having a hard time coming up with good, lasting mental images, I suggest to take a small break. Stop learning new cards and focus on reviewing. Keep on top of your red stack and those orange stacks. Focus on your favorite stories and ask yourself why they work. Soon enough you'll be hungry for new cards.
Most difficult part - Hyland1 - 2007-05-25
The hardest part for me was the realization that even though I'm "finished" (for the second time) I was going to have to keep on doing them, over and over, or lose them. I'm slowly switching out all of the English keywords for Japanese and hope that that will cement them in my mind, but it is still tough.
Most difficult part - Christoph - 2007-05-25
I agree with most here, as I got to about 1700/1800 kanji, I was finding that keeping on top of reviews and actually adding more kanji was becoming very time consuming, but after adjusting the way I dealt with failed kanji, and just pushing myself to keep on adding, I eventually finshed it all off.
Most difficult part - nycity - 2007-05-25
I'm now 1,5 month into RTK and for the most part, it was smooth sailing, adding 10-20 kanji every day (577 now). I seem to be stuck however, seeing that I haven't added any new kanji for almost a week now. The lessons are getting harder, the amount of kanji that need to be reviewed each day has grown, I've got less time now because of school work... Also, I believe that my technique for learning kanji has reached its limit. I should probably start tapping into my imaginative memory, as Heisig suggests. Up until now, I just focused on linking the keyword with the kanji through associations, which I thought would suffice. Anyway, we'll see
still motivated.
Most difficult part - alantin - 2007-05-25
Maybe you should check this thread out! --> http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=433
It motivated me when I thought that my methods suck!
Most difficult part - yukamina - 2007-06-05
There were certain areas or kanji I had trouble grasping(like the stamp section). I was actually around 1600 when I stopped to focus on school. Then I forgot most of it >_< and I'm floundering around 800 or something. I've decided to take a different approach and learn the kun readings along with the english meaning. There doesn't really seem to be a system for kun readings, so I'd rather not have to go through everything two more times once(if) I ever get through the english meanings.