22
8 months.
Currently on frame 577. Started for about about a month.
Intending to finishi in 3 months.

18
Since April 19th; already at frame 514, with about 85% retention! I'm trying to complete a whole lesson about every other day, regardless of how big it is. I want to keep the retention at about 85%-90% or more, so I'm using that as a guide for how I should review and how fast I'll complete it. I hope to be able to finish in a few months.

I'm 30.
Frame 2340, little over 5 months active now. Next to RTK3 now also learning readings by 'relearning' my known vocabulary, but now using kanji instead of only hiragana. I must say that RTK really starts to pay of since is easy now to recognise kanji and connect readings to them.

I am 30 (also)
frame 508
Right now I am trying (hard) to take it as slow as I can (no lack somedays - it's way tooooo addictive with this site), 'cause I am too busy until early June, but I plan to finish it on early July, even if I have to do nothing else for a month.
I noticed that it works far better the more Kanji I learn, so I usually add a whole chapter and then I am just doing the reviews for a few days to keep the orange stacks from growing. (anyone else trying desperately not to add new Kanji?)

I'm 14.
I started today.
I'm on frame 45 so far.

15.

Been doing this since the first of the month. 750 in. Slacked off a bit. Should be done by mid-june at the latest. I try to do 50 - 100 a day, but on days where they aren't just sticking, I drop down to 25. Just try and pick up the slack the next day.

17 but started late 16. I learned hiragana @ 15 yrs of age but forgot a lot of it. I did keep the input flowing though. I only got serious around february of 2008. I use to go on japanesepod101.com, but then I found AJATT and since then became serious. Im at frame 100 only cause i use the sample pdf.

23 .. I'm starting to feel old. I always had an obession with asian culture (especially video games XD) but never really considered learning Japanese.

There's a stigma about Japanese that leads you to believe it's the most difficult language to learn. Impossible really. Two years ago during a lazy summer, I finally decided to get into it, and started by downloading a pack of Japanese learning material.

I beat the kana into my head and slowly made my way through a grammar book I bought. It's amazing how instantly I could start recognizing sounds and words that were once nothing but unintelligble jibberish to me.
Now I've got some basic communication, but nothing I can honestly call conversational.


For the last year I've been lazy and haven't learned anything new (still watching japanese movies and playing games and such though)... It's only now that I've decided to approach the Kanji in a sensible manner (I think it's working!). I only wish I did this sooner.

I implore all you young people to keep at it and take the effort to learn the language. And to everyone older, it's never to late to learn something new. Find out what you've been missing all your life.



I've been searching for a good way to get into Japan and stay there for awhile.. It has to be the best learning tool of all, being completely surrounded in it... But I don't have a solid plan yet.... For now though, I have to do what I can! がんばります!!



Oh yeh, as for this course, I'm a n00b, just having started a few days ago. I've got 52 Kanji down and am looking forward to taking them all on!




Goodluck everyone!

i'm 24... i studied the RtK 1+3 on my own for about 2500 kanji...... i had trouble remembering them and someone pointed me towards this website with its SMS and user-created stores... gotta say it's pretty awesome ^_^. best forum community i've met yet on the internet the stories are really sticking better with me this time... i'm currently on 430...

はじめまして、みなさん！

Well I'm 25/male and while I did start the book offically in January, I've only really been plugging at it (slowly) for a month. I'm up to frame 104 with maybe about 90 actually memorized. I decided to take up Japanese when I saw it offered as a non-credit course at a local community college, and am going to Temple University this August to get my degree in Asian Studies. I also study Spanish on the side. Still horrible in both languages!

I actually find a lot of Heisig's stories to be unmemorable. Thankfully this site has a lot of very creative members on here that give me (IMHO) much more clever stories to work with.

どうぞ　よるしく　おねがいします！

18, I forget when I started, but its around 2 weeks or less since I got the book, ... I'm on lesson 17.... one lesson a day and they'll be done in no time....

Btw, for all you people that do ~50 a day, how exactly do you learn them? If I added extra time each day to learning kanji, I could learn a lot more too, but my question is a matter of efficiency. Do you spend a few hours at it? I just read it out of the book, assimilate the story, and write the kanji out around 10 times on paper.... My retention rate is usually in the 90's , unless I come home late at night and start memorizing at 1:30 am haha

26
A little over 2 months
1390

Today I turn in the last assignment of my MBA and then it's time to crank it up (though exams are coming up too, but kanji is more important )

jackhuddleston Wrote:18 years old. 2 weeks. I'm on 1100 or so...

Ahh, just read this :| So u do around 79 kanji a day on average?!?! Please do elaborate, how much time do you spend memorizing and what are your retention rates for review?

17
Did it once a year ago for two months, got up to ~1300.
Started up again from scratch a month ago
1351

22.
I started about a week or two ago I think, although I haven't had the chance to do much with other commitments.
Up to 276 so far.

37.

Started ~ 5 weeks ago and am now at 1041. Hope to finish in about the same amount of time!

21,
i started on heisig for acouple of days a month or so back prior to starting japanese at university, but now i've started again on my 5th or so day now at 280 xD

33
I've been at it for a bit over 2 weeks and I've reached number 577.

I studied Japanese for quite a while in high school and college, but I think I maxed out on kanji somewhere between 500 and 600. Pre-RTK, I probably really knew 200-300.

I hadn't done much Japanese for quite a while after college, but last year I took a trip to Japan for a seminar and remembered how much I liked it (Japan and Japanese). Then I lost momentum while I was studying for the bar exam. *sigh* Anyway, I was recently assigned a project that involved the mechanics of Japanese and remembered that I had RTK around the house. Then I found RevTK, which is what's really making this all possible.

33.

24, but I could have finished RTK1 while I was still 23 (I turned 24 in April) if I had been using this site sooner.

16 years old
2 weeks
Frame 291

I've been slacking a bit on kanji though, however.

25(last month) years old
3.5 months
Frame 1310

Been living in Japan for 8months, wish I finished this book before comming here. But Just being here makes your life a constant review. I cant believe how much it helps just to simply know the meanings. I plan on trying to finish up at the end of August, but that will be hard.

16/male...seventeen in a month!
Ended the book last week...now I started with sentences and continue the reviews with anki
My progress are in summary wrote in The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
From one month I'll start book 3 if that damn school permit (^^) if not continue with sentences and immersion...

17, frame 1616

Retention rate over 90 %, but because, and only because I found this wonderful site, so thanks, Faburisu

22 (almost 23 weee)!
I think I started four or five days ago?
I'm up to frame 150 (will finish chapter 8 later today...)