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    Thread: Fail criteria.
Post: Fail criteria.

My take on this is: "Easy" -> Able to swiftly write out the Kanji from seeing the Keyword, with or without remembering the story "Yes" -> Able to correctly write the Kanji with help of the stor...
Revenant Remembering the Kanji 20 4,045 2011-10-28, 8:23 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Just added #2042. Took exactly 1 year. With several break ups and a lot of other stuff intervening, however, I am now so very glad I persevered. Now I am on to a complete refresh of my reviews, start...
Revenant Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,662 2011-10-28, 8:11 pm
    Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners
Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners

I love Rikaichan, so Rikaisama made me chuckle =3 Thanks all~ E: What I'm doing now is that I exported the Core6000 from the CorePLUS deck and made my own Core6000 with the audio etc. Now I'm learnin...
Revenant The Japanese language 712 401,411 2011-10-23, 11:21 am
    Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners
Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners

Well, I've already got a lot of listening practice, so basically I'm mostly in for the probably "correct" sentences. Building a Deck myself, it probably has a lot of merits in itself. I'll use certai...
Revenant The Japanese language 712 401,411 2011-10-23, 3:53 am
    Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners
Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners

さっぱり分からないよ~ Maybe I better be making my own Deck from scratch, with random stuff I throw at it ~~ No fancy audio, tho. E: I believe it is this one: Core 2k6k Japanese Vocabulary - Beginner
Revenant The Japanese language 712 401,411 2011-10-22, 7:22 pm
    Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners
Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners

I see. I kinda figured that I was supposed to set the thing up like a 'G. Mhm, what I want is to be asked to read a word + the sentence in kanji, then reveal the card and see the writing and hear the ...
Revenant The Japanese language 712 401,411 2011-10-22, 7:01 pm
    Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners
Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners

I don't see what the Core2k/6k thing is doing for me. I get presented a word with a sentence using it in hiragana/katakana and it is even read out to me. How am I supposed to make anything with this? ...
Revenant The Japanese language 712 401,411 2011-10-22, 6:03 pm
    Thread: Studying kanji meaning and On yomi at the same time, faster?
Post: Studying kanji meaning and On yomi at the same tim...

Check out Textfugu's approach to learning Kanji (there's free lessons). Maybe you can adapt your own method a bit. I found that raw RtK wasn't "it" for me either.
Revenant Remembering the Kanji 16 9,662 2011-08-14, 6:02 pm
    Thread: Has anyone NOT used RTK?
Post: Has anyone NOT used RTK?

You may wanna check out Textfugu tho. I just can't seem to stick with RtK. But it wasn't a waste of time either. RtK made me familiar with the shapes of Kanji and all future learning in this regard wa...
Revenant The Japanese language 107 23,179 2011-08-14, 5:57 pm
    Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!
Post: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!

djerzinski Wrote:I thought exactly the same thing when i finished the 3/4, but i feel like it's becoming harder and harder. Since two weeks, i only did 150 kanjis... Don't burn out now! It's okay to g...
Revenant Remembering the Kanji 462 138,199 2011-06-28, 6:40 pm
    Thread: The Encouragement Thread
Post: The Encouragement Thread

http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blo...-and-hares This.
Revenant Remembering the Kanji 908 186,094 2011-06-23, 9:42 am
    Thread: I feel like it is taking me an abnormally long time...
Post: I feel like it is taking me an abnormally long tim...

When I learn new kanji, I do it like this: Go the the study page, enter the number where I left of +1. Look at the keyword (maybe look up a translation as I'm german, to get a connotation right). Loo...
Revenant Remembering the Kanji 20 5,440 2011-06-23, 9:38 am
    Thread: What should I do after RTK?
Post: What should I do after RTK?

I found Tatoeba a useful tool, searching for words and getting sentences; some are too complex, but useful stuff can be found easily. (http://tatoeba.org/) Maybe I'm overdoing it with some of the lo...
Revenant General discussion 14 6,122 2011-06-21, 7:21 pm
    Thread: The Encouragement Thread
Post: The Encouragement Thread

Just don't burn yourself out with 80 new ones, especially in sections where many new constellations are introduced - tends to screw you up, but even then it just takes 3-4 rounds of reviews. Reduce th...
Revenant Remembering the Kanji 908 186,094 2011-06-21, 5:42 pm
    Thread: The Encouragement Thread
Post: The Encouragement Thread

Congratz on that first one hundred. Keep going steady, but never give in to temptation and drop a day. If you break your daily habit, you're likely to stop for prolonged periods of time and when you c...
Revenant Remembering the Kanji 908 186,094 2011-06-21, 8:55 am
    Thread: Mobile reviewing
Post: Mobile reviewing

Thanks for the link, I now know about Android. I can see that there is a lot of useful SmartPhones to be had, but I'm a little scared by 24-month contracts still. Need to think more about how I'd util...
Revenant Learning resources 12 6,787 2011-06-19, 8:21 am
    Thread: Mobile reviewing
Post: Mobile reviewing

Is there a specific Phone (Android, I suppose is an OS? Do mobiles have OS'es?) to be recommended? The iPod touch can play music and enable me to use Anki, but I can't use it as a mobile phone, right...
Revenant Learning resources 12 6,787 2011-06-18, 12:07 pm
    Thread: Mobile reviewing
Post: Mobile reviewing

Hi, I'm looking for a device that enables me to review Anki on the go. Preferably it should also enable me to phone and listen to music. I heard about the iPhone, but that's ridiculously expensive. I ...
Revenant Learning resources 12 6,787 2011-06-17, 7:04 pm
    Thread: Is my handwriting legible?
Post: Is my handwriting legible?

I can read it just fine, looks good to me. I personally would try to avoid writing on anything else than karo'd paper, as I tend to write kanji too broad. The "su" needs a little bit more straightness...
Revenant General discussion 57 15,407 2011-06-16, 6:52 pm
    Thread: Half way!
Post: Half way!

darkauras Wrote:Woo, I can finally post here! After taking a 2 1/2 month break due to school related madness, I started over from start two weeks ago and here I am. I reached 1044 last night and it fe...
Revenant Remembering the Kanji 616 180,471 2011-06-15, 2:33 pm
    Thread: Half way!
Post: Half way!

I finally hit half-way! I started in early octobre '10, went to 880, but soon burned out due to private life reasons (yadda yadda, gibberish) and started over ~2weeks ago. Finally, I'm back on track a...
Revenant Remembering the Kanji 616 180,471 2011-06-13, 5:08 pm
    Thread: What should I do after RTK?
Post: What should I do after RTK?

It wasn't my intention to imply that any of the given study methods were a waste of time, but merely the act of thinking about what to study itself. In the meantime I managed to get the audio and ima...
Revenant General discussion 14 6,122 2011-06-13, 2:47 pm
    Thread: What should I do after RTK?
Post: What should I do after RTK?

It's a list of tools, not how to use them. Would still probably download one of the other versions of core2k6k. Should I be watching J-Drama? SRS every line? Only every useful line? What "Is" useful? ...
Revenant General discussion 14 6,122 2011-06-13, 1:22 pm
    Thread: What should I do after RTK?
Post: What should I do after RTK?

Thank you, that's the kinda stuff I wanted to hear! I've tried out Core2k when smart.fm was still available and am interested in it. I ain't wanna be the foo' (god, those damn Mr. T stories...) wasti...
Revenant General discussion 14 6,122 2011-06-13, 10:09 am
    Thread: What should I do after RTK?
Post: What should I do after RTK?

I've read many posts, I've read all of AJATT, I've had japanese classes before and I have several textbooks at hand. I'm looking for direct and personal advice on what I could be doing, so I don't ove...
Revenant General discussion 14 6,122 2011-06-13, 9:43 am
    Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners
Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners

I PM'ed you Nuke, basically about how to really go about starting to learn Japanese after "graduating" from the first RTK phase (2042kanji, later 3007). I read through a lot, but I don't wanna make th...
Revenant The Japanese language 712 401,411 2011-06-12, 2:57 pm
    Thread: Post RTK1 reviews?
Post: Post RTK1 reviews?

I supposed once you reached a point of having learned a lot of sentences, withthin those, you should've used almost every single kanji that's actuallys useful in some way, so... as bizarrojosh said, j...
Revenant Remembering the Kanji 8 1,866 2011-06-11, 3:10 pm
    Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!
Post: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!

Congrats to everyone who made it. I just managed to get back on track after giving up at ~900 RTK. I'll try hard and get as close to the finishing line as you all! Let's go!
Revenant Remembering the Kanji 462 138,199 2011-06-11, 3:03 pm
    Thread: "Lazy Kanji - mod v2" and RTK
Post: "Lazy Kanji - mod v2" and RTK

After going through 800 reviews in two days with the RTK-Ultima deck, what I can say about lazy kanji mod v2 is... My retention was quite high up there, but some primitives weren't properly sticked t...
Revenant Remembering the Kanji 19 8,953 2011-06-10, 4:08 pm
    Thread: Why do stories which are not stories get high scores?
Post: Why do stories which are not stories get high scor...

I just went and shot 650 Kanji in Anki to get back to my old count of 900ish after a longer break. Most reviews took between 1 to 5 seconds. The "stories" mostly became mere fragments, and some of the...
Revenant Remembering the Kanji 33 8,931 2011-06-09, 6:37 pm