Here's a crazy thought. In english there's sentences that let you type every key on a keyboard.

Why don't we do similar for all the kanji in RTK1. Here's the details. Create a list of compounds (preferably 3 to 4 character compounds) that use all the kanji with as few repetitions as possible. Hopefully that would be a list of less than 1000 compounds. If you take those and make sentences you could end up with about 200-300 sentences. Use the peg memory technique to incorporate a number in each sentence and you could write all the kanji from memory. In addition you would have a repetoire of 1000 compounds under your belt. Perhaps this could be incorporated with RTK2 as well.

Why? Because you need the practice, you have nothing better to do, flashcards get too repetitive :/, and it's great fun at partys.

Discuss.

(!) Memorize 250 random Japanese sentences? I'd like to meet a person who can do that.

scottamus Wrote:Why? Because you need the practice, you have nothing better to do, flashcards get too repetitive :/, and it's great fun at partys.

I think studying actual Japanese is more effective. If you're at a level where you can handle hundreds of sentences and compounds, why not read a book? Every time you encounter a kanji, that'll help reinforce it.

I already tried doing that with hiragana, and it's more work than its seems (I tried to include all the voiced and contracted syllables as well). With 2000+ kanji I think it's a very big job.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroha

It doesn't have the voiced or contracted syllables though.