Wei13 Wrote:流れ星さん、おめでとう！
ウェイさん、どうもありがとうございます!
Congratulations on finishing RTK1!
Wei13 Wrote:Congratulations on reaching the 3/4 mark! I'm not going to lie, the next quarter of the book will be difficult (at least I found it to be so) but hang in there!
Thanks for the warning. I
will hang in there "2042 or bust" is my motto! I have been reflecting on your words though. And i think i know why the upcoming frames seem to be more difficult than they really are. Mind you i still have many frames ahead of me - at 1577 since yesterday - so i might be wrong. I will find out soon enough how hard the last quarter really is.
I like challenges.
Many keywords have the same meaning.
I have been solving this problem by revolving my stories around one particular meaning of a given English keyword. One word more than one meaning to draw a story on my minds canvas.
As well as on my flashcards where the stories are hidden of course. This has helped a lot in keeping keywords with the same meaning distinct from each other.
Sometimes the problem still occurs that i have to write one kanji but end up with another instead. In one of my review sessions i had to write utensil 器 where i have written utilize 用 at first. But i eventually noticed my mistake before revealing the story or clicking the answer button.
The problem here was not that both words are so similar. Utilize just had a "stronger" connection to something else i had in mind. In a book i have read something about a screwdriver as utensil to remember how to loosen or fasten a screw. In RTK 用 the word screwdriver is assigned to the primitive element. That is why i was confusing one with the other. The book was Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda.
After i have written the kanji for utensil i remembered the frame coming after that and parts of the Heisig story as well. It was something along those lines that our friend St. Bernard is alive and well and sniffing for something or other.
I once made a mistake in introducing a part of a new primitive element with the name of another. It was "line" describing a drop on top. Upon reviewing this particular kanji i was remembering the line not as top stroke but as "line, column, going" primitive. Which led to fail the kanji i had to write. The "line" was just too strong because of the number of kanji that use that element.
Too many primitives in a rather short amount of time and only two or three kanji that follow them.
Instead of
just forming a visual image story to memorize a kanji, i have now started to incorporate all the parts that make up a new kanji in a story as well. I think that is the best way to learn and remember sets of two kanji sharing the same primitive elements.
I don't know if this is the best way to do it but i hope it will work.
anyway, I hope I can finish before christmas eve. Thank God I've got my iAnki. Doing reviews on the toilet helps me keep my review stack under control. First RTK Lite, now almost RTK1 full, sure feels good. It took some time, but it's worth it
