I'm at 718 and hope to be at 800 by tomorrow ---

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I reached 280 but my review was only 17 out of 31 correct which was depressing.

Can someone encourage me by reasuring me in a logical way that recalling a certain kanji from what sometimes seem like random keywords like "draw near" or "paulownia" is really the answer for learning kanji?

Hmmpff.

But, on another note, keep it up everybody!

Wow. Finally added another lesson's worth of kanji. Bring on Lesson 8! I recently removed all my kanji and restarted the book, as I have had a way too long of a break (a year or so). Feels good to be back at it! Especially with one lesson a day or so

sorry bout the remark guys I'm at 750 I had hoped 800 by today but at least um still moving keep at it guys

300! I feel like a Trojan or whatever those guys were.

canji Wrote:300! I feel like a Trojan or whatever those guys were.

スパータ人だった。今晩地獄で食事しよう！
頑張れ。

I just got to 1333 and kissed the monitor. I've been seeing this kanji and its primitive so much lately that I was tempted to just jump to this chapter and hit it.

hknamida sounds like Korean. 8)

1350

canji Wrote:300! I feel like a Trojan or whatever those guys were.

Consider they went around yelling 'This is Sparta!' I'm going to guess they were Spartans.

Congrats on 300, though... That's a pretty big milestone.

kazelee Wrote:hknamida sounds like Korean. 8)

Maybe I should pick Korean for my next language, then.
(Actually, "hknamida" is short for "星影涙".)

If it feels hard around the halfway mark, do remember that the characters are by no means ordered by difficulty. It's very much a downhill ride from that point onward.

Edit: I really need to check if there's a 日本語 dub of 三百.

that would be hillarious!


As for me, I'm still at ~９８０. Moving sucks.
I'm having some trouble with kanji such as 'assurance', where some elements are different but nobody seems to even make mention of it in the stories.

I'll try to get halfway done with this thing by tomorrow.

1709... just a little more...

I'm up for a new day of my plan for at least 100 kanji per day. The extremely long reviews are pretty painful, I've only been doing this for a few days but I'm already doing 300+ review cards every morning. I'm trying to keep it steady though. I want to reach my goal, so I know I have to keep at it even if RtK takes up the better portion of my day. I'm up to frame 577 as of this morning, so I feel like I've made progress at least.

Awesome thread is awesome. I used to do 15-30 kanji a day (sometimes I did none) and suffered from Kanji burnout. But thanks to the very motivating posts in this thread, I'm doing ~60 per day and plan to do a 100 today!

I'm at 750 I feel like in starting to hit a rut between 700-800 these kanji are pretty tough.

hknamida Wrote:

canji Wrote:300! I feel like a Trojan or whatever those guys were.

スパータ人だった。今晩地獄で食事しよう！
頑張れ。

Oh damn! I see what you did there!

これは、スパーアタ！

Quote:If it feels hard around the halfway mark, do remember that the characters are by no means ordered by difficulty. It's very much a downhill ride from that point onward.

That is a great post and what this thread is all about I reckon. Thanks.

310.

Compared to you, I am just at the beginning :-( 145, but this thread is very motivating and I plan to learn 40-50 kanji per day....

I passed the halfway mark 2 days ago(I am at frame 1085), and it really feels downhill now. Maybe it is just that I feel more motivated, but last 60 kanji were very very easy ^^

Surprisingly the reviews are keeping at a reasonable number(~160, 80 in the morning 80 in the afternoon)

Soon we will all move to a different thread...

Aaah! I am having a really hard time with all these water-kanji! Soon I'll be done with the lesson though, crazy...

deebo Wrote:Just started two days ago, done the first 6 lessons (104 kanji).

Now at 313. Pace has slowed down the last few days as haven't had much time. On vacation next week, so should be able to crack through a lot! Moving to Tokyo at end of August, so I wonder how many I can get done before then...

canji Wrote:310.

Good going canji - it looks like you started about the same time as me as well. Good to know there's somebody at the same place, at the same pace! :)

Whew, finally finished my workload today. After my 500+ card review, I went on to finish up Lesson 23. Lesson 23 really was a pain like people have said in this thread. It took me 3-4 tries on some of the kanji because I kept forgetting the new primitives. Currently, I am on frame 778. My time spent doing RtK has climbed to around 6-7 hours a day I'm guessing.

I just feel like saying, don't be discouraged if you're screwing up the reviews. My review percentages are pretty inconsistent, but for the older kanji they are definitely getting better, going as high as 90-95%. Learning percentage for me is usually a lot worse, like my final 2/3 of lesson 23 percentage of 78%. Keeping it going is most important and being frustrated ruins concentration that could be spent doing more kanji.

Crap! I was only able to review the day before yesterday and yesterday I didn't even get a chance as I was setting up my new laptop. I'm dreading the reviews today once I finally get my deck on here.

hagaren199 Wrote:Whew, finally finished my workload today. After my 500+ card review,

WAAAhhhh!?

Wait, lemme repeat...

WAAAhhhh!?

That's siiiiick. The fact you could make it through that is a show that you'll have no problem completing this!

On another note...

Has anyone else got the feeling that this book has increased their vocabulary? I have good short term memory so I just let most of these word slip when I first learned them in school. Now I can't get words like truss and promontory out of my head.

1400!

Yeah, I've been adding some english vocab in anki for some time.
Stuff like 'vernal', 'forlorn' etc.

Just got to 1500. That's one quarter of the way through @_@.

These kanji are working their way into the brain. I don't have headaches anymore. Now when I learn it just feels like something that is supposed to be happening.

Keep it up everyone!!! This feeling is awesome!!!