JapaneseRuleOf7 Wrote:Wait, so just like that it's over?

Just when I was getting inspired.

This.

But seriously, it's not like you have to do it pedal to the metal and set a new land speed record. What's wrong with making your goal more realistic and adding a few per day? 5 cards per day would be something like a ~15 minute investment. Surely you can scrape together 15 minutes.. and you'd learn the kanji without barely even noticing it.

Hello, I'm starting back on Japanese again after a hiatus. Long story short, I stopped on RTK1 at about 900 kanji and I'm sure I forgot 95% of it.

Anyway, back on the topic of this thread, I tried to download Rtk lite but for some reason it won't work? here are pictures

When I go to download this one http://puu.sh/d9xdW/ac3e220e64.png
it gives me this message http://puu.sh/d9xfu/ea25db601f.png

and it never finishes updating....http://puu.sh/d9xh5/492af9c1c3.png

and it stays like that forever. Any other way I can download an rtk lite deck?

It seems to be saying that you are updating an existing deck. I believe this is probably because your old rtk deck still exists in your collection. Deleting the old deck will probably solve your problems. You may also want to read the section on duplicates and deck packages in the anki manual.

yogert909 Wrote:

JapaneseRuleOf7 Wrote:Wait, so just like that it's over?

Just when I was getting inspired.

This.

But seriously, it's not like you have to do it pedal to the metal and set a new land speed record. What's wrong with making your goal more realistic and adding a few per day? 5 cards per day would be something like a ~15 minute investment. Surely you can scrape together 15 minutes.. and you'd learn the kanji without barely even noticing it.

In the end I took a week off from Kanji for life sorting, and then resumed at 1/3rd the pace. I ended up finishing the RTK Lite before the JLPT, but then I didn't even go to sit for the test. In the end, I wouldn't be afraid to make another journal thread about my other memorizing challenges. Even though I failed my own challenge, I memorized a lot of Kanji more quickly than I would have. And even though I automatically failed the JLPT N2, it wasn't wasted money because it actually got me to commit to learn the Kanji required for the test.

@JapaneseRuleOf7 I need inspiration too, next time let's start a competitive challenge to learn the rest of the kanji/vocab.

@Sauzer @Sholum Thanks! This little suggestion in the end helped me limp to the finish line.

@yogert909 ditto on the inspiration. PM if you ever want to collaborate. You're definitely right that a moderate workload is the easiest way to overcome something over a long period of time. I feel like there's always that added constant of commitment that I personally need. I probably wouldn't have even started seriously studying the Kanji if I promised to do the bare minimum daily. Guess it's a personal issue for me.