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RTK Lite Anki Deck

#1
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ldyymiz5myu

(I just uploaded this to the Anki server as well, so it should be available under Shared Decks now)

A few notes:

There's an extra kanji in there that I left unsuspended because I already knew it. I don't know which one it is, but I know it's within the first 150 or so. This brings the grand total number of kanji in this deck to 1116.

In the question field, underneath the keyword is the word "Story." Click it, and it will be replaced by whatever text is in the Story field for that card, which I have left blank. The idea is that if you forget a kanji, you can look up the story and add it to that field so next time, you can have a little more help recalling it before having to fail it. If you don't want that word there, just go into the deck properties and edit the HTML code out of the Question field.

All I did was take the default Heisig deck from Anki, and unsuspend all of the RTK Lite kanji. I left the other ones in so they can be unsuspended after you've learned the JLPT2 kanji. This way, all of your Heisig kanji can be reviewed in one deck, and you won't have to manually unsuspend stuff in a second deck; just filter by "Suspended" and toggle Suspension on any kanji you come across.

The idea of RTK Lite is to finish RTK quickly by cutting the number of kanji learned initially by 926, learning only the 1023 JLPT2 kanji as well as about 92 other kanji that serve as primitives for the rest.

Some interesting figures someone posted a while back:

173 kanji make up 50% all kanji in Wikipedia.
454 kanji cover 75% of all kanji in Wikipedia.
874 kanji cover 90%
1214 kanji cover 95%
2061 kanji cover 99%
2456 kanji cover 99.5%
3489 kanji cover 99.9%

I dunno about you guys, but I'd rather start learning with 95% potential rather than wait another month to get to 99%.
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#2
2456 kanji=99.5%? i learned up to 3100+ so that would mean 99.7% for me? lol Well for the meaning yes. But reading and understanding it is a whole different story i suppose.
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#3
I'm going to recommend RTK lite to a few people I know actually Tongue

Note to those lurkers who are just getting into Japanese study: If I could go back in time, I'd have done RTK lite, Tae Kim, KO2001, KM2ykuu and then moved straight to my vocab deck I'm building now and I'd be so far ahead of where I am now!

Also wanted to add that 95% is kind of misleading even if it is technically true. What you have to bear in mind is those stats would actually hold true if you meet 1 condition and that is "for every kanji you know out of those ~1200 you also have to know every single vocab word they're a part of". That's a hell of lot, but it's the truth.

Bottom line, get through the study you need to do and then just work on vocab, vocab, vocab.
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Still, the idea is that you can learn 95% of the vocab using those kanji (although it doesn't actually say how many kanji outside of those are also parts of the vocab).

Either way, it takes the pain of RTK out of the Japanese language learning process quickly.
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