(This thread is for those who stopped with the "Remembering the Kanji 1"book for some reason yet recently managed to resume their studies.)


I procastinated after 3 days, and examinations/OCTs did not help things, yet I eventually managed to use Anki a bit. Some days later, I edited the Anki deck in order to accentuate the key words and all. Eventually, I managed to study Lesson 5. (I even got a "Kingdok" primitive: 大.) Right now, I have one more test and OCT to do, yet I plan to follow up with the "elements" lesson Wednesday. (That lesson really is long!)

Ahhh, I thought it was for people who had stopped studying at all and went to playing with the language through audio, video or social interaction, then came back to studying again. (Studying being anything you do that is specifically for learning the language.)

I hate studying. To me it feels like "studying" when you just don't want to do it but it feels like "learning" when you're learning in a way that excites and inspires you. I'm doing too much "study" atm...

私もそう思います
Force yourself to do fun stuff in L2, not boring stuff

Well, let's see... I started RTK summer of 2006. It was the summer I learned the joy of flashcards. It's 2010 and I'm about 10 kanji away from finishing volume 1 for the first time, I kid you not. It's been a lot of stopping and stalling out and a lot of review binges, but I've kept on trucking. You have no idea how proud I am to be finishing, after all this time.

I don't think I would have gotten through it had I not discovered RevTK and Anki. Having to make my own stories was one of my major stumbling blocks... RevTK took out all the pain and I only had to modify/adapt/create new stories for a handful of kanji.

That's the thing. When you stop for long periods, you have to kind of start again. I say kind of , because you remember a lot of the kanji but just a little bit incorrectly..

I like wccrawford's idea better. Let's hijack this thread.

I've been a major grumble grouch about studying lately but I've been pretty chill about using and interacting with Japanese everyday. I will go home to America for the first time in two years for a visit on Friday and my motivation to "study" has been in a slump ever since I bought the ticket last month

I was super gung ho about 1kyuu, but not anymore... I'm gonna wait until December.

I'm pretty good with jp so I can just chill and goof off for a little bit but I'm hoping that visiting home and seeing what I left behind (deliberately in some cases) will help me to get some perspective on what I'm doing here in Japan and with the Japanese language.