squarezebra Wrote:I completely understand where you are coming from, but I think it also depends a little on your studying method.
When I started RTK, I was also using the Japanesepod101 podcasts and PDF's which has Japanese, kana and romaji transcriptions, so I could pick up a lot of new kanji and their readings from studying those transcripts. It's true that until you reach the first 1000 Characters you are very limited in what you can understand, but there are always ways around that if you search for them. I think for me, it was important that I did RTK along with a number of different Japanese activities, so I could use what I was learning from the start, and that accounts for why it has taken me so long to 'almost be done with rtk'. I think if you rush something, you'll end up having to pay for it one way or another later on down the line.

I find that quite an admirable approach, and would have liked to have incorporated other studies more with RTK. I wonder if this would be more practical for Japanese learners if someone reordered RTK1 like RTK Ultra Lite (KO level 1) > RTK Lite (JLPT 2) > RTK1.

I think that if you are going to take more than 3 months to do RTK, in order to study other Japanese things, as I did, you should do RTK Lite first.
Doing RTK lite first is beneficial for your other studies, as you don't waste time with reviews of kanji you are not going to use for some time.