(2016-06-13, 2:45 am)wareya Wrote: You must remember that different communities are strongly biased towards or against different goals, so people who are about efficiency or learning as much as possible before they burn out will totally be down on methods like Heisig, since they add extra steps upfront to the process of getting better at japanese.
I really don't look at it any other way. It's different strokes for different folks. The important part is making sure that people who don't know what they're doing don't get dragged into something that's got caveats attached, and that's a job for time.
It's not particularly difficult to do RTK slowly alongside N5-N4 material though. The advantage of knowing tons of kanji only starts to kicks in once you get past N4 stuff imho. There's a lot to take in before you get there. Granted, that's not what's recommended in RTK, but the fact of the matter is you can do it and it works great.
Not that anybody has to do it or like it, but it's definitely possible to do it without getting burned out. But then again, some people hardly make an effort to learn the language. I don't think I could stand taking a full year to finish Genki 1 and 2, let alone just Genki 1 like some people do.
Edited: 2016-06-13, 3:33 am