I get the impression that a lot of the opposition is people expecting it to do more than it is supposed it.
It doesn't teach you to read or write the language nor be able to listen to or speak it.
All it does is allow one to attach an English keyword to a Kanji, to be able to recognize one vs the other, to write them [if you write as part of the review process] and to make able to make sense of new Kanji as opposed to them being completely random sciggles.
It does what it does well, but it fails at what it doesn't even try to do.
The only alternative other than a clone of the method is to just try to learn them by extreme exposure but memory systems shaves time off of it.
Myself I got to 1950 before switching to Chinese [and getting nowhere from the fear, sigh, a few more days and I think I will switch back]. I didn't use the full method. I have no interest in coming up with Grandpa Simpson style stories when I can usually construct a short sentence with the components and the key word. However I used the order of his Kanji and the basic method.
That plus Anki, without either I think I'd rather poke myself in the eye with a really hot French Fry than try to learn it.
About the only downside other than long stories vs a simple sentence is that if you do it first which he recommends and kinda makes sense although unpopular, there can be a pretty wide gap between the time you learn a Kanji and when you start using it unless you are speeding through the texts and media and even then. Rather that then be stuck trying to learn a complex Kanji before I got to it in RtK.
It seems Remembering the Hanzi is much less popular on the Chinese side than Remembering the Kanji for some reason.
It doesn't teach you to read or write the language nor be able to listen to or speak it.
All it does is allow one to attach an English keyword to a Kanji, to be able to recognize one vs the other, to write them [if you write as part of the review process] and to make able to make sense of new Kanji as opposed to them being completely random sciggles.
It does what it does well, but it fails at what it doesn't even try to do.
The only alternative other than a clone of the method is to just try to learn them by extreme exposure but memory systems shaves time off of it.
Myself I got to 1950 before switching to Chinese [and getting nowhere from the fear, sigh, a few more days and I think I will switch back]. I didn't use the full method. I have no interest in coming up with Grandpa Simpson style stories when I can usually construct a short sentence with the components and the key word. However I used the order of his Kanji and the basic method.
That plus Anki, without either I think I'd rather poke myself in the eye with a really hot French Fry than try to learn it.
About the only downside other than long stories vs a simple sentence is that if you do it first which he recommends and kinda makes sense although unpopular, there can be a pretty wide gap between the time you learn a Kanji and when you start using it unless you are speeding through the texts and media and even then. Rather that then be stuck trying to learn a complex Kanji before I got to it in RtK.
It seems Remembering the Hanzi is much less popular on the Chinese side than Remembering the Kanji for some reason.