Horrid backlog I swore I wouldn't take a break but university exams came and I ended up doing it and the longer I left it the harder it got to return. Anyway I'm back and I'm wondering if since I was gone if lazy kanji took off since it hadn't been out for long when I went on break so there wasn't much long term information about it. Since I assume results are in how is the lazy kanji method faring?

Edit: for people that might not know what I'm talking about: http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blo...mple-cards

I don't think people who did lazy kanji ever had any major problems, but remember that kanji are a relatively minor part of your study.

It's more important to just pick a way, and then do it instead of spending time obsessing over which. Personally I'd just do vanilla RTK lite and just jump right into Japanese.

What is RTK lite?, I never obsessed over method but I ridiculously obsessed over high quality stories which wasted vast amounts of time would have just been quicker to do it without the stories.

Then just use the stories provided by the site.

I completed RTK three times. Once using the normal RTK method, once using the lazy kanji method, and once using the RTK light method.

The RTK light method is definatly the best way in my opinion, and I found the lazy RTK method to be almost completely useless for long term kanji recognition.

An even better way, is to do a RTK lite / sentence hybrid deck. I am currently working on making such a deck.

Alhusseini Wrote:Then just use the stories provided by the site.

I've written over a thousand stories myself because I with a passion hated 90% of the ones other people posted due to various reasons that's why I was thinking of using lazy kanji for the last 1000 kanji after I've caught back up on reviews however people seem to like this RTK lite so I'll check that out.

RTKLite will require you to make or pick stories too…

What's the difference then? if you need to pick stories one way or the other I don't see why anyone would choose rtklite

https://mikotoneko.wordpress.com/2010/03...ite-paths/ and http://rtkwiki.koohii.com/wiki/RTK_Lite and and other google hits

RTKlite just reduces the number of kanji from 2200 in Heisig's book to ~1000. There are of course many ways to reduce the number of kanji you're going to learn, e.g., frequency analysis, etc.

subkulture, just wait for Nayr's sentence-RTK deck ^-

Sentence RTK deck sounds interesting got a link? I know 1200 kanji though it'll take me a month to catchup on reviews.... tears so I refuse to not learn all 2200 so rtk lite is definitely out of the picture.