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    Thread: High rates of acquisition?
Post: High rates of acquisition?

Your pace might get slower later in the book also because the kanji tend to get more complicated.
DurablePants Remembering the Kanji 10 2,748 2007-01-29, 8:52 pm
    Thread: How to use RTK when already learn 1000+ kanji by traditionally
Post: How to use RTK when already learn 1000+ kanji by t...

I think you should just start in the beginning and work your way through. The book is arranged in a way so that kanji with similar primitives are grouped together, not by how common they are. A majo...
DurablePants Remembering the Kanji 4 1,525 2007-01-22, 2:06 am
    Thread: How many kanji per day?
Post: How many kanji per day?

Yeah, if you think about it, the hardest part is learning the primitives. After that, most of the kanji are just combinations of 2 primitives arranged next to each other vertically or horizontally. ...
DurablePants Remembering the Kanji 19 5,751 2006-12-20, 7:34 pm
    Thread: How many kanji per day?
Post: How many kanji per day?

I had nothing to do over the summer and studied about 2-4 hours per day, about 50-100 kanji per day. I completed the book in about 4 weeks. I found that the trick to memorizing them quickly is not ...
DurablePants Remembering the Kanji 19 5,751 2006-12-19, 9:30 pm
    Thread: Using Additional Kanji Study Materials
Post: Using Additional Kanji Study Materials

yeah, i would just stick to using RTK1 and this website
DurablePants Remembering the Kanji 7 2,414 2006-12-03, 10:16 pm
    Thread: reading help
Post: reading help

btw, raichu, i just visited your website holy crap you are obsessed with pokemon
DurablePants General discussion 16 7,650 2006-09-03, 5:39 am
    Thread: reading help
Post: reading help

thanks, i thought it meant something like that but i wasnt sure
DurablePants General discussion 16 7,650 2006-09-03, 2:20 am
    Thread: reading help
Post: reading help

I have another translation question 外来語がたくさん入った日本語ほど難しい日本語はない、といってもいいほどである。 i know the first part means like "there is nothing in japanese as difficult as loan-words" but what does といってもいいほどである。me...
DurablePants General discussion 16 7,650 2006-09-03, 12:15 am
    Thread: reading help
Post: reading help

thanks wrightak. i didnt really notice your explanation in your first post oops. Now that you explained the grammar, the meaning of the passage seems really obvious and i feel really stupid lol. It...
DurablePants General discussion 16 7,650 2006-08-31, 12:19 am
    Thread: reading help
Post: reading help

well so can anyone translate that parts of the passage that contains naru? it still doesnt really make sense to me
DurablePants General discussion 16 7,650 2006-08-29, 9:18 am
    Thread: reading help
Post: reading help

i know that naru means become but it doesnt seem to make sense in context
DurablePants General discussion 16 7,650 2006-08-29, 1:40 am
    Thread: reading help
Post: reading help

Hi guys, ive been reading stuff on the reading materials site http://contest.thinkquest.jp/tqj1999/20190/. Its been going pretty good except there are some grammar things that im confused about which...
DurablePants General discussion 16 7,650 2006-08-29, 12:30 am
    Thread: question about using IME Input for japanese
Post: question about using IME Input for japanese

thank you
DurablePants General discussion 4 2,379 2006-08-13, 8:52 pm
    Thread: question about using IME Input for japanese
Post: question about using IME Input for japanese

Hi, does anyone know if there is a hotkey for the japanese IME input language bar thing that would allow me to switch from hiragana input - katakana - direct input, etc. without having to click with m...
DurablePants General discussion 4 2,379 2006-08-12, 7:13 pm
    Thread: Responses when talking about the Heisig system??
Post: Responses when talking about the Heisig system??

i probably knew about 200-300 of the kanji before i started. Basically, once youve mastered the primitives, the kanji are pretty easy to remember because most the kanji are just 2 primitives joined l...
DurablePants Remembering the Kanji 25 11,741 2006-06-29, 7:06 pm
    Thread: Responses when talking about the Heisig system??
Post: Responses when talking about the Heisig system??

well, I averaged about 3-4 hours a day of study and it took me 5 weeks to complete the entire book. The way I did it was I would make up stories for about 100-150 kanji in one day (i go through about...
DurablePants Remembering the Kanji 25 11,741 2006-06-29, 5:34 pm
    Thread: RTK get together?
Post: RTK get together?

i guess no one in africa likes studying kanji
DurablePants Off topic 232 102,373 2006-06-27, 1:58 pm
    Thread: the blue kanji box
Post: the blue kanji box

I bought the cards about a month ago but i barely used them since I found this site. Helsig says that you shouldnt shuffle the cards out of their groups of 100. Since the cards are organized sequent...
DurablePants Remembering the Kanji 26 12,583 2006-06-22, 8:25 pm
    Thread: Responses when talking about the Heisig system??
Post: Responses when talking about the Heisig system??

in my opinion, i think that effectiveness of this method depends on how fast you finish the book. If your working at a really slow pace and it takes you, for example, a year to finish the entire book...
DurablePants Remembering the Kanji 25 11,741 2006-06-22, 8:18 pm
    Thread: Where can I get RTK3?
Post: Where can I get RTK3?

oh thats weird, it shows the picture of the 3rd book but its actually the 2nd book, my bad
DurablePants Remembering the Kanji 19 6,771 2006-06-16, 12:45 pm
    Thread: Where can I get RTK3?
Post: Where can I get RTK3?

are you sure they are out? i just looked up RTK 3 on froogle.com and there are bunch being sold for about 24$
DurablePants Remembering the Kanji 19 6,771 2006-06-16, 1:49 am