Hello 漢字 students and teachers! Please lend me your expertise. So I was gone for 3 months for a wedding, which I drove literally across the US to get to and back and then caught a cold. I had to take my finals with a cold and didn't have the energy nor the inspiration to study. It's been since November since I have studied Heisig. I got to frame 1500 and I probably know 850 kanji spread though-out the book because of Japanese study in general. Do you have any tips of how to jump back onto the train. I always find it extremely difficult to get back into the groove once I loose myself.

読んでくれてありがとうございます！

Excuses, excuses. Why don't you just quit??

Just kidding. I probably wouldn't do anything special, just open up the SRS and start reviewing. Think of failing cards as marking the cards you need to restudy (in other words, don't stress out), and perhaps if you're intimidated by how much you need to do, timebox them for 10-20 minutes, just do what you can in that amount of time, perhaps reserve another timeboxing session for restudying kanji...

I would probably put adding new kanji on hold, and just think of failed cards as new kanji... except relearning is a lot easier than learning something completely new, so perhaps you'd have the mental energy to add a few new kanji at a time, if you found it motivated you...

Exactly, don't get intimidated by the huge stack of expired cards. Just pretend there are just a few of 'm and go trough those 'few' every day. Timeboxing works great for this.
Stop adding new cards for a while, instead focus on getting your immersive environment back on track to get your motivation for study back, whilst plowing your way through the expired kanji pile (which does not exist, shh!).

頑張って~

コメントをありがとうございます！
NestOr, (or is that a zero?)
I never thought of trying smaller increments time rather than cards. Divide and conquer sounds like a nice plan.

Rekkusu, Your advice is sound I will try my best to pretend the [i]you know what[i] doesn't exist. Is 15 minutes good for timeboxing?

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NestOr, (or is that a zero?)
I never thought of trying smaller increments time rather than cards. Divide and conquer sounds like a nice plan.

Rekkusu, Your advice is sound I will try my best to pretend the [i]you know what[i] doesn't exist. Is 15 minutes good for timeboxing?

No idea, I think it's a zero. I think I made my name lowercase alphanumeric because I assumed 'Nestor' was already taken and was too lazy to check. ;p

A lot of us like this (10+2)*5 hack: http://www.43folders.com/2005/10/11/proc...-hack-1025 or we modify it... If you're using this site, I'd probably use the Tea Time® Firefox add-on, or the identically named standalone program: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tea-timer/ ; https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7472

You could switch off between expired and restudy stacks w/ each segment, perhaps...

508 kanji later... T_T

I see,
Thank you for the links! I will see if I can understand any of that.

もっと頑張ります。
皆さん、ありがとうございます！