I'm typing them up by hand but thought, maybe someone on this forum has done it already. Thanks!

http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Kanji-Ch...+o%27neill

I really like this book because each new frame (there is a frame for each kanji) introduces compounds that include ONLY kanji already introduced in previous frames (as well as of course the new kanji in the new frame). This makes it MUCH easier to review and remember the compounds. I'm finding that when I review these compounds I can actually remember most of them.

So it sounds like it's the RTK method for compounds which is brilliant. I've been considering making such a list programmatically, but have had a few other things on my plate. I love that you're doing all of the work and I hope you'll post your spreadsheet for us lazy folks

yogert909 Wrote:So it sounds like it's the RTK method for compounds which is brilliant. I've been considering making such a list programmatically, but have had a few other things on my plate. I love that you're doing all of the work and I hope you'll post your spreadsheet for us lazy folks

Yes, I was thinking that myself, that it's like RTK but for compounds. I think the book is brilliant in that regard. The author must have gone to a lot of trouble to do this. He states in the introduction:

"First, it introduces the characters systematically, in that the simpler and more common ones are given first, and the compounds illustrating the readings of a character use only the character itself and such others as have already appeared in the course. This arrangement reinforces the knowledge of characters already learned by their sporadic reappearance and makes it possible to know exactly how many characters have been covered fully at any particular time."

I'm enjoying working through it.