Hi, everybody! I'm new here, so, uh... yeah.

I've been using Rev. the Kanji for a while now alongisde RTK 1 and Anki. I'm currently at around frame 300, and while I've had no problems so far, something just feels... off. I don't know whether I don't completely understand the method, or if I'm just worrying too much.

Here's how it usually goes:
-I get a new kanji
-I look it up in RTK and on here,
-I look at the stories and I use the one that suits me the most for my Anki deck, with minor alterations where necessary,
-I create an image of the story in my head, identifiy the individual primitives, write down the kanji a few times (trying to improve my awful handwriting :/ ),
-when I'm satisfied, I move on to the next.

As I've said, it's going well and I rarely forget kanji (mostly abstract ideas hard to build a solid story around), I do my reviews with a nice retention rate, but I'm just afraid that if I mess up something now, it'll return down the road twice as hard.

I guess what I'm asking is, is this method okay? Should I change something or stick with it? I've caught myself relying on visual memory on a few (rare) occasions.

I'll be very grateful for any advice.

Sounds ok to me. I don't know what else you could ask for.

Quote:..but I'm just afraid that if I mess up something now, it'll return down the road twice as hard.

I really don't think this is the case for most things in learning Japanese. Unless someone mixed up all of your kanji so you're learning the wrong keywords that could be a problem, but it's really about remembering the kanji, so I'd say if you remember them then that's great.

You also might want to look into learning kanji to keyword(kanji on the front, keyword on the back) and/or rtk lite(a subset of rtk). The goal of each of these is to get you learning vocabulary and reading sooner. Not to say that these are better for everyone, but it's good to know that there are are options.

I guess you're right, I'm just being a bit paranoid. Learning the kanji is still quite the daunting task, even with RTK for help. I'll keep on going, and if I do happen to run into any problems eventually, maybe I'll just ask again - there's no harm in it.

Thanks a lot for the reassurance!