Eminem2 Wrote:What's even worse, even if you manage to somehow master all of the RTK1 Kanji going Heisig key word --> Kanji, you will eventually find that in far too many cases you have been working with a key word that is effectively useless. Either because the key word is simply wrong, or because the Kanji in question is mostly used in combinations that add up to a meaning significantly different from the first word listed in a dictionary for the Kanji in isolation. (And quite often, Heisig simply appears to have picked the first English word listed in a Kanji dictionary without much consideration for how the Kanji is actually used in everyday Japanese. Which is not all that surprising, because Heisig didn't know that much Japanese when he first published RTK1.)I used a deck with around 10/15 example words per Kanji when I re-did RTK (lite). I ended up changing some of the keywords as I went along for this very same reason; in a number of cases I used two keywords and had to recall both to pass the card.
Quote:In my own experience though, knowing all of the RTK1 Kanji isn't that much help when starting with Japanese grammar.+1. Most beginner level grammar is presented with minimal kanji, so knowing 2k Kanji will not help until you move outside of N5 stuff. The same goes for the JLPT, if you're used to reading with Kanji, or used Core to learn vocab, then the reading passages will be tricky at first.
I fully remember reading simple like:
わたしはパンをたくさんたべました。
Was harder/slower than:
私はパンをたくさん食べました。or even 私はパンを沢山食べました。
To answer the OP:
Second time around (RTK lite, ~1100 kanji), I added 20 a day until ~800 then slowed down to 10 a day for the last 300. That would be in the region of 70 days.
First time around, I did a lesson a day until part 2. Then slowed down to 10 a day. At some point I stopped adding, deleted the deck, and moved to vocab -- I wouldn't do this
