I'm on my second day after having memorized the kanji from chapters 1 and 2, thus 34 kanjis. I've been working with Anki but just checked out this site. Which is better overall?

Thanks, Eric

I don't know if there is a better path. I'm sure many members can offer you pros and cons. I personally use Anki because of the level of control I have over the data at any given point.

Maybe outdated but: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=1021

RevTK for the stories, Anki for reviewing. That's how I do it. Both are great!

I use this site for kanji reviewing, and have to say it's a wonderful tool for that job. I'm not yet on the sentence stage, so I'll probably use anki when I do. I'm currently using anki for general and physics knowledge, and loving it.

I prefer RevTK's SRS just because the stories on the site are well-integrated into the SRS. If you miss a question, you have an opportunity to select a good story for it from the list when you review. If your card's in Anki instead, you're more likely to shrug your shoulders and not bother revising or choosing a new story.

(I say this as a big fan of Anki, BTW.)

- Kef

furrykef Wrote:If your card's in Anki instead, you're more likely to shrug your shoulders and not bother revising or choosing a new story.

Why? I have a story for every card in Anki...

stoked Wrote:

furrykef Wrote:If your card's in Anki instead, you're more likely to shrug your shoulders and not bother revising or choosing a new story.

Why? I have a story for every card in Anki...

http://img398.imageshack.us/img398/9276/livelyqk1.png

Do you have an awesome pic like that for every story/card/kanji ? Because seriously, ... That's pretty awesome.

I agree, great picture. You can actually see the kanji in it.

wccrawford Wrote:Do you have an awesome pic like that for every story/card/kanji ? Because seriously, ... That's pretty awesome.

I think it's impossible to find such a good pic for every kanji, but I'm trying:

http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=2432

Jumping into this a week late, but my thoughts:

There are two considerations that appear to be primary.

1) Do you already use Anki for other stuff? If so, IMO the benefits of maintaining a single SRS outweigh the advantages of this site.

2) Do you intend to heavily customize your experience (visible stories, changed keywords, additional information, etc)? If so, though there do exist ways to do some of that to this site, you may want to consider Anki.

If the answer to both is no, the site's already set up and takes marginally less effort to add new cards in.

~J

If I was starting RTK right now I'd definitely go for Anki. Anki on my laptop and iAnki on my iPod = instant-on & accessible anywhere without needing internet access. If I'm waiting in line somewhere or waiting for the train I can just whip it out and get through a few dozen cards.

Of course, the stories on revtk are still invaluable. Anki also lacks a nice failed section like revtk does and a graph of where all your cards are. It would be nice if there was some sort of bidirectional integration between the two.

Question that may have already been asked. How kan I get Anki on my Itouch? It would be great to be able to review on the go. I can plug the new ones in the morining and review later in the day on the go.

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danco3636 Wrote:Question that may have already been asked. How kan I get Anki on my Itouch? It would be great to be able to review on the go. I can plug the new ones in the morining and review later in the day on the go.

This isn't a support forum for Anki. Please post technical questions about Anki on the Anki discussion group.
http://groups.google.com/group/ankisrs/topics

I use Anki but that's because I have everything in Anki in one deck. Kanji, Sentences, iKnow, School subjects and world capitals. IMO having them all in one deck makes the reviews more varied and fun.

I use both Anki and RvTK. My daily ritual is the following:
- 16-18 new kanji, pick stories for those characters, write them up in a journal. Source RvTK for stories.
- update RvTK with new added Kanji
- review new/expired cards in Anki
(sleep)
- Test new cards in RvTK
- Review expired cards in RvTK
- Add new cards that were tested earlier in RvTK to Anki

Both are great and I feel that they complement each other quite nicely. I also feel that by testing twice (morning/evening) I can see how well I really recall the story attached to the character.

brianobush Wrote:I use both Anki and RvTK. My daily ritual is the following:
- 16-18 new kanji, pick stories for those characters, write them up in a journal. Source RvTK for stories.
- update RvTK with new added Kanji
- review new/expired cards in Anki
(sleep)
- Test new cards in RvTK
- Review expired cards in RvTK
- Add new cards that were tested earlier in RvTK to Anki

Both are great and I feel that they complement each other quite nicely. I also feel that by testing twice (morning/evening) I can see how well I really recall the story attached to the character.

That's almost exactly my routine. I do my Anki reviews around 6:30 in the morning, then I have another go at this site about 4 in the afternoon. With Anki, I have a pre-made deck shuffling out 10 new cards a day. Here, I'm staying a little bit ahead of Anki -- right now I'm about 50 or 60 cards ahead. So the overlap is not perfect, which is in fact, perfect. It also means I can take a day or two off here once in a while and not worry about having to adjust my Anki rate.

I have ultimate respect for Damien, and Anki. But I will say that this site seems to scramble the kanji reviews a little better than Anki does. Perhaps I just haven't been at this long enough to give Anki enough time to put its algorithm to full use. But it seems in Anki I'm often getting "class reviews" (where kanji are related so closely that when you see how you missed A, you clearly know how to write B). Less so, here -- or at least it seems that way to my simple mind.

But overall, I'm extremely pleased to have two complementary but separate systems to use. Tip of the old boushi to everyone involved in both.

The default review order is oldest first. Switch it to 'due' or 'random' for a bit more randomness.

resolve Wrote:The default review order is oldest first. Switch it to 'due' or 'random' for a bit more randomness.

Hey, thanks.

And for what it's worth, (or not) I have family down in Kumamoto. Some are in the city proper, others are in the mikan hill country around 玉名市. I'll never forget the first time I went down there, when I could hardly read a darn thing, and could only understand a wee bit. My ears kept picking up this 玉名市 sound. To me, 玉名市 sounded exactly like 玉無し. And who could blame me? So I flat-out asked 'em just who it was around this area that didn't have any balls. この辺にわ誰か玉が無しですか？

They just about drove the car off a curve they were laughing so hard.

We own small apartment building in Setagaya-ku that we call ... 有明フラット.

And every year those wonderful people from "No Balls" send us 馬刺し and イチゴ。

Viva la ビニルハウス。