For those of you who have passed the 1000+ frames learned milestone, how do you combat diminishing returns?


Today, I'm learning my 559th frame. I learn 20 frames a day, five days a week and review on Saturday and Sunday. I also review for one whole week every five weeks. I hope to finish on or around March 1, 2011.
My biggest fear is reaching that 1000th or 2000th frame. How am I going to keep my self from forgetting all I've learned while I'm focusing the majority of my energy on learning new frames.

What have been your experiences with diminishing returns?
How have you combat it?

Other than study tools like RTK, flash cards, flashcardexchange.com and smart.fm, how are you guys reviewing?

Anki + reading Japanese often

Honestly, this site or an Anki deck should do the job. Doing some reading helps, too, and is fun. The kanji will sink in with the SRS approach, or even flash cards.

With good stories, it's like the kanji is burned in your brains.

I wouldn't worry too much if I were you, since to march 2011, you will have plenty of reviews (and failing and more reviews), and by then believe me, the first 1000 kanji will be a part of you (I even think of the kanji when someone says the keyword, now that's SRS magic).

Just keep going, at your own pace.
If you keep worrying, review more (then you fail more and learn more).
Remember, reviewing is more important than adding.

SRS (anki or RevTK) should be enough, but reading in Japanese is also a good exercice, as seeing kanjis in context is less "artificial" (you can more easily relate to the kanji through stories or sentences that touches you).