JimmySeal Wrote:Apparently this is an e-peen comparing contest and we need a full set of credentials to comment on RTK. Ok...Oh sh1t! JimmySeal is in here too?! He's, like, the ancient one. m(-_-)m
I've been reading Japanese at an adult level for 4 years now, and I'll be passing Kanji Kentei level 2 next month. I think RTK is a godsend. Even 5 years after using it, the stories are still there to boost me up when a character's writing slips my mind or I need to distinguish two similar characters. And the solid foundation of primitives I built up by going through the book in one shot helps me get a grip on characters that the book didn't cover. I think it would be a different story if I picked stuff up in dribs and drabs like Hereticalrants is suggesting.
Maybe some of you are smarter than me and have no problem juggling 5-7 pieces of disconnected information at once, but I tried that for a long time and it didn't work. For an average joe like me, RTK is the only way to go.
Edited: 2010-10-20, 9:54 am