I finally finished too!
It took me two tries, but I'm done! I can focus on the vocab/grammar and practice now!
Here's the story in case it interests/motivates someone :
I started 3 years ago, for 6 months, learnt about 500 kanji with this website, and then stopped because I was missing the time.
Then I started again a year after, with Anki this time, with the premade deck 'Heisigs RTK all-in-one v1.2b'. I liked it better.
The good news was that most of the kanji I learned, even without doing any reviews for a year, were still in my memory, so I just re-added them in a month.
Then it took me a year and a half to finish it.
I was doing Anki about 45mins a day : 30 mins reviewing + 15 mins adding between 0-30 new kanji (I found the good average for me was 10-15), sometimes maybe 15mins more per day. During the weekend, I was usually just reviewing, and sometimes not even all due kanji.
I was reviewing and learning in public transportation during my daily commute, which was really nice, no time wasted! (when I see people playing Candy Crush in the metro/bus, it makes me realize how much time we actually have to learn things!)
Now I think I went a bit slowly compared to people that I see here, even among the ones that don't rush, but I think I have a good retention now so that's all that matters, and anyway I wasn't in such a rush to learn Japanese.
Here are some stats concerning the second part of my learning (the last 1.5 years) :
Total: 32043 reviews
Average for days studied: 60.8 reviews/day
Total: 177 hours
Average for days studied: 20.2 minutes/day
Average answer time: 19.9s (3.0 cards/minute)
% Correct for Learning: 82%
% Correct for Young : 98%
% Correct for Mature: 90%
I think the real numbers concerning time are about twice as what Anki says (I'm not sure how it counts it, but that's what I observed, it corresponds to about 45 mins a day on average)
Now I'm not exactly sure what resources I will, I have the Core 10k, so maybe I'll start with the 2k, and check out some grammar on Imabi.net
It took me two tries, but I'm done! I can focus on the vocab/grammar and practice now!
Here's the story in case it interests/motivates someone :
I started 3 years ago, for 6 months, learnt about 500 kanji with this website, and then stopped because I was missing the time.
Then I started again a year after, with Anki this time, with the premade deck 'Heisigs RTK all-in-one v1.2b'. I liked it better.
The good news was that most of the kanji I learned, even without doing any reviews for a year, were still in my memory, so I just re-added them in a month.
Then it took me a year and a half to finish it.
I was doing Anki about 45mins a day : 30 mins reviewing + 15 mins adding between 0-30 new kanji (I found the good average for me was 10-15), sometimes maybe 15mins more per day. During the weekend, I was usually just reviewing, and sometimes not even all due kanji.
I was reviewing and learning in public transportation during my daily commute, which was really nice, no time wasted! (when I see people playing Candy Crush in the metro/bus, it makes me realize how much time we actually have to learn things!)
Now I think I went a bit slowly compared to people that I see here, even among the ones that don't rush, but I think I have a good retention now so that's all that matters, and anyway I wasn't in such a rush to learn Japanese.
Here are some stats concerning the second part of my learning (the last 1.5 years) :
Total: 32043 reviews
Average for days studied: 60.8 reviews/day
Total: 177 hours
Average for days studied: 20.2 minutes/day
Average answer time: 19.9s (3.0 cards/minute)
% Correct for Learning: 82%
% Correct for Young : 98%
% Correct for Mature: 90%
I think the real numbers concerning time are about twice as what Anki says (I'm not sure how it counts it, but that's what I observed, it corresponds to about 45 mins a day on average)
Now I'm not exactly sure what resources I will, I have the Core 10k, so maybe I'll start with the 2k, and check out some grammar on Imabi.net