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The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. - Astor - 2013-03-15
First, hi everyone! After 85 days, i finally added the last card of RTK1 in the site, the histories in the site helped a lot. Now i will relearn hiragana and katakana with i "learned" a year ago, dropped everything and retry with RTK in december.
I will try to be in the forum and help when i can (after i learn something
) as i know this site will help me with the resources that already have.See ya.
The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. - ktcgx - 2013-03-16
bimspramirez Wrote:Yeah, I bought the pre-made box set you can find online that goes with RTK... but this site is much better, mainly because it stops you from reviewing kanji you know very well, so you can be much more efficient with your study. I kept losing motivation, despite currently living in Japan, because my study habits weren't very efficient... Plus at some point my imagination for stories ran out a bit. I've relied on ones I've found here a lot. I still made some of my own, when I couldn't find a great one on here (lots of people's stories are way too literal I think, and that doesn't help me remember the kanji much)...ktcgx Wrote:So, it took me over 2 years to finish, mostly due to not having found this site til about 4 months ago and having had to make do with physical flashcards until then, but I'm finally done with the 2042 kanji!! (now just to finish the supplement, but that doesn't count, right guys??)Wow! Physical flashcards for all those kanji? O_O You made it yourself or just bought premade flashcards?
Thanks to everyone whose stories I used, and I hope some of mine that I posted up have helped others^^
I have to exert double effort too. Must finish RTK1 asap.
But hey, I'm down to the last 21 kanji before hitting the new target of 2200^^ And then on to try to figure out Anki to make an RTK2 deck.... Anki seems very difficult though... I'm having a bit of a tough time wrapping my head around it... The layout is not very intuitive for me.
Good luck with finishing RTK1! But don't feel like you have to rush it, just take a pace that works for you^^
The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. - RondonDan01 - 2013-03-20
Today I:
- Finished RTK 1
DDDDD- got to 1000th card of Core2k
- posted my first youtube video practicing japanese:
http://youtu.be/MF6SVugSTLE
- and been with my girlfriend for 6 years (urgh)
The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. - ktcgx - 2013-03-20
Congratulations on finishing!
The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. - winterpromise31 - 2013-03-20
RondonDan01 - congrats on your entire list!
The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. - uisukii - 2013-03-20
RondonDan01 Wrote:- and been with my girlfriend for 6 years (urgh)Haven't tied the knot after six years? Sounds like one of my friends and his partner. Pretty funny, as I also know a few people who have got together, had kids, married and divorced, all in a space less than 6 years.
Life is pretty funny to observe sometimes.
The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. - JusenkyoGuide - 2013-03-23
For my birthday last October my wife and kids got me RTK1 and 3, my parents bought me 2 since after 8 years in Japan I was finally tired of being functionally illiterate. I finally finished chapter 56, frame 2,200 today six months later.
Now on to the readings!
The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. - winterpromise31 - 2013-03-24
JusenkyoGuide - Congrats on your finish! Good luck with the readings!
The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. - brt0bz - 2013-03-24
I just finished RTK1 in only 646 days!
I've now reviewed every one of the 2042 kanji at least once. Took a while, had a bit of a break around 350 (see the screenshot), but managed to come back and continue pretty much where I had left. Majority of stories had stuck quite well in my head. Around 900 I got annoyed by vague/near-synonym keywords (also became lazy) and started to add (with white text though) stories, or just partial stories or hints, or occasional readings in hiragana on the front side of cards if I failed them couple of times. At same time I started to write down on paper every kanji I had up for review, earlier I had just 'drawn' it in the air with finger or gestured with mouse. What amazes me most is that I managed to do about four months of consecutive daily reps, even if it was just 5 minutes of reps while leaving majority of due cards for the next day.
http://i.imgur.com/uttHzpk.jpg
Thanks to everyone in this community for the silly stories and sometimes silly forum threads
Now off to build up my vocabulary (think I'll need to deal with the supplement as well, but no rush yet...)
The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. - winterpromise31 - 2013-03-25
Congrats on your finish! That is an impressive looking graph.
The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. - fedartz - 2013-03-31
omedetou
The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. - lhong1987 - 2013-04-02
After 2.5 months, finally went through the first round of rtk1.
Just wanted to share, time for tae kim/core deck, I guess.
I also wanted to congratulate brt0bz. That's impressive!
The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. - Mystery - 2013-04-08
Congratulations lhong1987
I've just finished RTK1 as well.
About 5 years ago I bought the book and since then I made several attempts at finishing it, but I usually just got to a few hundred kanji before I quit. The furthest I got was ~600 I think.
Well, this time I finally finished it and it took me about two months, never allowing myself a break (which probably caused the other attempts to fail). This is especially impressive for me since I'm usually completely unable to stick to anything that regularly.
I'm not quite sure where to go from here. My current plan is to add RTK3 at a slower pace and do the core2k/6k/10k deck after taking a look at Tae Kim's guide.
The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. - zurisu - 2013-04-08
Congratulations, Mystery! Your tenacity and unwillingness to quit really paid off! ^_^ Way to go!
The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. - Taelia - 2013-04-12
YEEEEHAW!
Finished<3
I too will be continuing with the Core2k6k deck and the Tae Kim deck, as well as I'll be playing Final Fantasy 1 till 14.. but this time around, in japanese!
The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. - Daikoru - 2013-04-12
*turns epic music on*
Today is a great day. This collossal obstacle that is the Kanji. It is now behind me. An achievement that I thought I could never fulfill. A project of a length bigger than what I had previously given up on.
Now, Kanji don't scare me anymore. Where I would go "AAAARGH" whenever there was one, I now can't help but attempt to recognize them all. I started playing Zelda in Japanese when I reached around 1600 Kanji. I couldn't believe how easier it was to understand with Kanji than without when I played Pokemon.
The path is clear now! Those obstacles remaining in front are nothing! I have unlocked many paths that I couldn't previously take on due to the presence of Kanji. So many paths. Ah, yes, freedom! Japanese fluency, here I come!
*leaves epic music on and runs in the background*
The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. - winterpromise31 - 2013-04-14
LOL. Congrats you guys!!!
The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. - zurisu - 2013-04-24
I signed up here (and started RTK) May of last year, and now it's the end of April. Here I am, finally clocking in at just under a year, DONE!
Well, not done of course. But I've passed every kanji in RTK1+Supplement at least once, so, w00t, no more adding, not for a while at least :3 ! (I do, though, want to go through RTK3 eventually! Just probably not for months and months.)
I am so so so so sooooo so grateful to Fabrice, this community, and of course James Heisig for helping me get this far (^o^)／ Thank you!!!
In case anyone is reading through this thread for advice from the vets, then here's mine: If you're using this site to review, then DO DO DO use the story feature and enter a story (or copy someone else's in there),--And if you use Anki, be sure to put one on the back of your card--even if you really don't see the point. I felt exactly that way: figured that since the stories were mnemonics, I would automatically remember them even if I failed the card once I saw the kanji, so I didn't bother with writing down or copying stories at all.
And then... I fell behind for a couple months, nearly 1,400 kanji were up for review, and I'd forgotten nearly all of them, including most of the stories. So, on top of working through a giant backlog, I had to re-figure out what story I wanted to use, when it would have been so much simpler if I had written them down in the first place to take a peek at.
Speaking of huge backlogs, I actually fell behind over 1,300 kanji twice. It's totally possible to come back from, so don't give up! Buuut, just take it from me that it's MUCH less painful to just keep up with your reviews than to spend weeks trying to muddle out of such a mess. You'll fail nearly every kanji, and those kanji will just go back into the failed pile, turning 1,300 kanji into something like 2,000 or 3,000 (or more?) reps. It's a major... major headache...
But I made it through! Hooray :3 In case anyone's curious for some quickfacts, then:
- I only expected to take 2-3 months, not 11
- I used the Koohii site to review from the beginning, but only discovered the convenience of the user stories after halfway through
- This was my first attempt at RTK
- The most kanji I ever added in a day was around 100, but adding was really irregular for me. I finally settled down to a nice pace of 100/week in the last 8 or so weeks
- I'm currently at around 1,200 words on Core6k
- Still haven't made it through Tae Kim, OTL
The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. - LukeAmadeus - 2013-05-02
Hi everyone!
A couple days ago I finally reached the original 2042 end point! I had been using RtK1 off and on since last July, and had only really retained maybe 1000 or less kanji with accuracy. But a busy lifestyle (particularly when living in Japan) demands efficiency! and thank you, Fabrice, for giving us that with this amazing site. I went from less than half to all the joyo kanji in just three weeks. It wouldn't have been possible had it not been for this site and the remarkably helpful stories from the community.
I'm curious, since the addition of the other standard kanji in 2010, how have people set out to learn them? I have the 2011 6th Edition RtK1 book, and at first I had successfully made all 2200 kanji flashcards -- but they were so neatly ordered, so ponderous as to be difficult to manage, and my stories for many of the latter half quite poor, that I was loath to use them (hence the miracle of this site). So I ignored the intersperced post-2010 kanji and kept to the original "Heisig numbers" as found on this site (I'm actually amazed Heisig changed the numbering system after 2010 since "Heisig number" is such a well known quantification, even found in Japanese dictionary apps like imiwa). The other post-2010 kanji seem to be among RtK3.
Has anyone attempted to isolate those extra 138 kanji instead of doing all of RtK3? (although I plan on doing that anyway thanks to this site)
- Luke
The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. - Aspiring - 2013-05-02
Katsuo Wrote:^The link is a spreadsheet of the new Joyo kanji added in 2010.Tobberoth Wrote:Could you maybe list all the 常用漢字 which are in RtK3 but not RtK1 as well?At present it's a rather short list: 璽
There are 1,945 Joyo kanji and all are in RTK1 except for the one character above.
However, the Joyo kanji list is due to be revised next year. 191 characters are to be added and 5 removed.
Where to find the 191 new characters?:
RTK1: 37
RTK3: 132
Not in RTK: 22
Details here.
More at http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=3838&page=1
&Congrats!
The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. - bleko - 2013-05-04
皆さん、おめでとう！
This was my third reboot in three years, and it took close to another year to finish up! (Still working on the supplements ^^; ...) Even though I added new kanji so slowly, I kept up with my Anki reviews pretty faithfully and have picked up a few readings and compounds along the way, so even at my snail's pace, I feel very enriched. Perhaps it wasn't quite what Dr. Heisig had in mind, but a learning method as intuitive as his is exactly what I had in mind! We all learn uniquely, but I think I'm not alone in believing that his intuitive approach is a game changer.
Many thanks to author Heisig, administrator Denis, and the rest of you ridiculous storytellers. You keep me coming back...
がんばるぞ！
The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. - Hirakana - 2013-05-04
Congratulations to everyone from the faroff halfway point!
I can just about see you guys in the distance!
The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. - ktcgx - 2013-05-04
Congrats!
The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. - bimspramirez - 2013-05-06
WOOOT!!! I finally reached the goal! Now onto grammar and vocabs!
The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. - dunble - 2013-05-13
Just made it to the end of RTK1 after 4 months. Pretty happy with how it went overall, maintaining about 90% retention all the way. I filled up a 140 page notebook with my reviews, since I felt writing practice was worth it. It is still a bit discouraging when I keep failing the same cards every few weeks, but i'm hoping that this will fix itself when i'm not adding 30+ new cards every day. I owe a lot to this site for the ease in acquiring stories. I practically never needed to think of my own; the top rated ones are usually much better than anything I thought of.
I haven't yet grasped the challenge that lies ahead though. What's next for me is rtk1 supplement, kana, tae kim, core 6k, and probably dobjg. It feels like a huge amount of work, and I only hope I can maintain the discipline that it took to finish RTK. My original goal was to be able to play games, read VNs and light novels untranslated. Hopefully it's not going to take years to reach that point, but I am at least on the right path.