Hey, I'm new =) I've been learning Nihongo at uni for a year, and just received my RTK books & poster. This site is awesome.

Question: what's the best way to use the Kanji Poster with the book? Heaps of people colour in the characters with whiteboard markers, but when should you do this? After you first learn the character? After four reviews?

Sorry if this has been raised earlier, like i said, I'm new and dumb =p Only mastered 30/2000 so far.

-usagi xx

I colored in the kanji after I had added them to the deck and reviewed once.

I don't have the poster, but when I add new kanji to my deck on the site, I print them out and tack them to my bedroom wall. If I did have the poster however, I probably would have done the same thing except that I would have colored them in on the poster instead.

Rub it on yourself after showering.

LOL. there's an original idea...
it's all hard and plasticy though.

http://www.kanjiposter.com/

There is a picture tutorial on the frontpage.

Jarvik7 Wrote:Rub it on yourself after showering.

Hah! Great idea, I love it! :lol:

Makes me want to go out and buy the poster, now...

If I had the poster, I would have different colours for different levels of mastery.

As soon as I come across it and add it to my study piles, say colour it yellow, once it has gotten to the 2 or 3 pile, orange, finally, Red for Kanji that have made it into the 4 pile

This could of course be a little cumbersome, so 2 colours may be better, one for initially added, and one for being in the 4+ pile.

This could continue as well, with another colour set for learning vocab readings, but I would grow tired of it. I would probably just mark it all off as i go through the deck, having a good visual representation of my success so far, and have it help me to REFUSE to fail at my goal.

It is also great to look at half the Poster and say, I KNOW those ^^

Now that I am done the book I may still get one, we'll see.

I've got a laminated poster of the same sort that I made myself, after seeing the kanji poster up for sale. I use it to track two things: all that I've started learning (total # cards in my deck) and all I know pretty well (all in box 3 + 4). I use wet erase markers and do a circle for the first and a square for the second. My wife and I use different colors.

Also, there are "rewards" (bribes) written periodically down the side, to encourage continued studying. I get a sushi dinner once my well-known count hits 1400!

I underlined kanji I've learned after the first review. Gives you a very good idea of your progress. I also used the poster to mark (and connect) Kanji that I found hard because of two keywords that have roughly the same meaning can can be confused easily.