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2 year hiatus, and back - Dustin_Calgary - 2010-12-08
Well, almost 2 years ago I got all the way through the book RTK1 but a couple days later had a temporary stop to my studies. Since I blasted through so fast I had 1300 overdue reviews. I never recovered.
I was only 1/4 into JFE ( I had done another 2 book elementary course from my university that I felt was FAR too bare bones ) and I had been toying with smart.fm and anki as well.
After almost 2 years off I got hit by a car ( 2 months ago ) required hip surgery and now I'm stuck at home not working for a while.
The first month I was on too much pain to do anything too useful, now I need to fill my time with something I can do while sitting around. In the last month I've gone through the first 7.5 lessons of JFE catching back up to where I had gotten to previously. I am doing this very systematically, writing out every exercise, refering to DOBJG where needed, doing vocab flashcards, doing all audio exercises. I am only 750 kanji into my second round of RTK ( did lesson 23, 130 kanji today ) and am picking up the pace now. It's VERY easy the second time through.
Smart.fm I have pretty well finished core2k steps 1 and 2 and are throwing them into anki now. All my anki sentence reviews get written out as well as all of my kanji reviews. I have a sentence review book, an RTK kanji review book, and a JFE exercise book
I am doing the remaining steps of core2k at a slower pace and will start doing ko2001 alongside it as well, even if it's slowly.
Now I just need to get this to a manageable daily review total so that once I am back to work I can keep up.
Any tips ideas suggestions welcome, but wish me luck
2 year hiatus, and back - vinniram - 2010-12-08
I hope you recovery soon! That must have been a terrifying experience, being hit by a car. Best of luck for JFE as well. I honestly don't know how you can do that + redo RTK + Core/smart.fm at the same time. I find just keeping up with JFE reviews is enough hehe. But you sound like you're powering through it, so I'm sure you'll catch up to me soon (i'm on lesson 16 of JFE atm
) Feel free to pm if you want to discuss any part of the textbook. It is such a great book, by any standards. And best of luck with your recovery.
2 year hiatus, and back - Dustin_Calgary - 2010-12-08
Thanks for the good wishes! I am hoping to be mostly mobile within a couple months here!
I have a lot of free time now, but I also have twin girls ( 3 1/2 y/o ) running around the house to distract me :p
I'll definitely pm you if I get stuck on something on JFE or want to discuss.
Any particularly rough spots I should know about? ( 7 audio WHOOPED me )