I ask this question because I have just started learning ( I'm on lesson 6) and I've been doing a lesson a day, but some of these lessons seem to be abut lacking in the number of kanji I'm willing to learn. I guess my question is, is it okay to compound lessons? I was also trying to go for heisig's "3 month" mark, and I was wondering how many kanji a day you would have to take in for that.

Thanks guys.

I think it's ok to do it as and how you like.
I don't have as much time as I'd like to plough into it these days, so I limit myself to 10 a day - this keeps my reviews doable for me.
If you have the time to kill it in 3 months then go for it. I think you'll have to ake sure you dont skip days if you do though ... reviews will stack up thick and fast if you go the 3 month route.
Also, you're looking at about 20-22 kanji per day to hit it in 3 months

Focus on doing a certain amount of kanji a day, not a number of chapters.
Reason being the amount of kanji in a chapter fluctuate way too much for that. Smallest chapter has like 6 kanji, while the largest has over one hundred.
SRS wise its also better to stick to a steady amount. This reduces 'review spikes', if you do a steady amount of cards a day, the number of cards you'll have to review will stay roughly the same. If the amount varies a lot you'll probably also get very different amounts of cards to review each day.

Lefty Wrote:I was also trying to go for heisig's "3 month" mark, and I was wondering how many kanji a day you would have to take in for that.

2042 / (3 * 30) = 22.7

JimmySeal Wrote:

Lefty Wrote:I was also trying to go for heisig's "3 month" mark, and I was wondering how many kanji a day you would have to take in for that.

2042 / (3 * 30) = 22.7

lol

JimmySeal Wrote:

Lefty Wrote:I was also trying to go for heisig's "3 month" mark, and I was wondering how many kanji a day you would have to take in for that.

2042 / (3 * 30) = 22.7

You should make sure the 23rd kanji you arrive at the first day has 10 strokes, and learn 7 of them. The next day, you'll be learning 3 strokes of the last character from the previous day, plus 22 whole kanji, plus 4 strokes from the next character. Rinse and repeat.

But both May and July have 31 days, assuming he started right away. So that makes it 2042 / 92 which is 22.1956522 no?

There is only one study habit in Japan and that's がんばれ！

mezbup Wrote:There is only one study habit in Japan and that's がんばれ！

With a decent medical check-up from time to time, you don't want to work yourself to death like the japanese do

The important thing to remember here is to keep moving. Review what you know every day, and try to add at least a few new kanji as well. And I would definitely recommend having a goal of a certain amount to add each day, as I ranged from as low as 5 to as many as 100 in a day, and my reviews spiked accordingly (making it harder to add new cards because I was swamped in reviews). Considering what everyone in this thread has said, it seems a daily goal of 20-25 new kanji would work well.

Oh, and I did the "lesson a day" thing as well, but there is one lesson with something like 108 kanji in it...not exactly bite-sized.

Do at least 100 + per day, then you can finish in 20 days like me.

I'm on my 2nd attempt and i recognize a lot of the reasons for the failure of the first attempt. What you do today with regards to studying really affects how hard tomorrow will be. Also even if you do a steady amount like the 22.7 recommended in this thread, it will become first easier and then harder. Easier as you learn the process, harder as more reviews add up and also for me I started having trouble installing new kanji into my brain around 1200. Now if you were doing more and more per day, you would have all that to deal with + all the reviews. Also avoid getting caught in the not adding anything new cycle. You can do reviews forever and never seem to be making any progress.

In conclusion my advice is:

Set a certain amount to do per day. ~22 is good, but once you get going, or if you're extremely motivated and nothing can stop you, or you have an awesome memory, do more.
Always add everyday, no matter what.
Avoid taking days off, if you can.
Don't stop keep going!

Yonosa Wrote:Do at least 100 + per day, then you can finish in 20 days like me.

You might wanna post in the "what does finishing RTK mean" thread, http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=5600, I'm just curious about that 20-day timespan of yours doing RTK

Ahh, I see, my apologies. And thank you guys for helping me decide, Im going to try to see how many I can do, probably about 30-60 depending on it's simplicity, and go from there. I'm trying to do this in as short a time as possible, so I'm sure i can work something out.

I figured out that I finished RTK1 3 times later than planned, I planned on 3 months, It took me 9.

so I´m planning to triple the planned amount of sentences I want to learn during summer.

Instead of 1500 sentences during 3 months, those in 30 days.

I´ll see how it goes...

jettyke Wrote:I figured out that I finished RTK1 3 times later than planned, I planned on 3 months, It took me 9.

so I´m planning to triple the planned amount of sentences I want to learn during summer.

Instead of 1500 sentences during 3 months, those in 30 days.

I´ll see how it goes...

If you do a lot of sentences, I advise you read a lot as well. Cuz chances of seeing the same context/kanji reading are high. So keep reading a lot outside.
The more you read, the more you improve, simple as that.