Hi there, I'm new to the forum, although I'm currently at about number 1650 in RTK. It's a journey I've been enjoying very much, although I am wearying slightly! I've actually suspended any other type of Japanese language learning, other than conversation at the conversational level that I already possess, until I learn all the Joyo kanji.

I've been working from the 5th edition of RTK, and as the title of this thread suggests, my question relates to the (I seem to remember) 160 kanjis that were added to the Joyo kanji a few years back. Is there a supplement that you can buy to learn them with RTK. Are they all in the 6th edition? Have they been incorporated into the study list on the Reviewing the Kanji website, and have they therefore been injected inbetween the regular list of kanji and the RTK 3 list of kanji?

Apologies if I'm repeating a question somebody else has already asked.

Thanks for your time,
Ziggaman

You'll find them here:
https://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/files/201...lement.pdf

And you can add them to this site, following the 'custom add' function.

Perfect, ktcgx, thank you very much for your help!

Having just read the site news, about adapting use of the website depending on whether one has editions 1-5 or the new edition, it strikes me as logical to have the 196 newly approved kanji numbered in between RTK1 and RTK2 on the website, in order to go through all of the Joyo kanji first. Am I missing something?

Then again I haven't looked at RTK3 yet, only being at about 1720 kanji in RTK 1 at the moment. Learning kanji using the RTK method, is it necessary to go through RTK3 in sequence in order to be able to learn the newly approved 196 kanji? I noticed in the supplement that ktcgx kindly linked above, that there is no particular sequence required for studying the 196 by themselves.

Thanks,
Ziggaman

I studied from the 5th edition and just added in the supplement kanji after I finished, but I think it would be better to go through them in primitives order, grouped with the other kanji that use that primitive.

I did the 5th edition of RTK1 and now I'm doing RTK3 (the edition that picks up with #2043). I understand that in the end I'm missing 23 kanji. No big deal. I'll just look at those separately.

john555 Wrote:I did the 5th edition of RTK1 and now I'm doing RTK3 (the edition that picks up with #2043). I understand that in the end I'm missing 23 kanji. No big deal. I'll just look at those separately.

Yeah, that definitely makes sense if you're going to power through and do RTK3 straight off the back of RTK1. However my thinking was to finish RTK 1, then get the rest of the Joyo kanji, and then to get back to the other aspects of learning Japanese which I've been neglecting, including learning the readings for the kanjis that I'll need for the first couple of JLPTs which I haven't even done yet.

So in conclusion my plan was to go through RTK3 at a much more leisurely pace. Say, three new kanjis per day...