Hey,

About half a year ago I started doing RTK1, but I quit and only got up to #250.
I want to get back on track, giving RTK Lite a shot.
I've been looking into it, but it makes absolutely no sense to me. I've done forum searches, but all I found were lots of terms I don't know getting thrown around a lot and a whole lot of links and downloads and scripts and text files etc etc.

I honestly have no idea how to start.

Can someone please explain to a noob like me how I can start learning kanji with RTK Lite?
(PS. I have the RTK books, in case I'll be needing them.)

I agree it's pretty difficult to get the right info..

RTK lite is basically the JLPT kanji up to N2 level + the radicals that you need to make these kanji.

I think the easiest way to start is to open a new account on this site, and start from scratch using the script.

I had done 450 kanji and started the script after those kanji but it was more trouble than it was worth.

If you want to get just the lite kanji into anki, that's a bit of a pain too (I can explain how I did that if you want)

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Stefan, I think you should first complete the equivalent of the sample chapter, which is ~250 kanji. Those are the easiest and can be learned in under a week. This will give you the basics of how the method works. Don't skip this.

Then, if you want to use the flashcards on Reviewing the Kanji, don't use the Greasemonkey script. You need the selection of kanji from somewhere in this thread. Then whenever you learn 10-20 at a time, you paste them into the Manage > Add Custom Selection page. Then Review the blue pile (new cards).

The website doesn't have a builtin support for custom sequences yet, so you'd want to keep your RTK Lite text file that you can continue to copy the kanji from. I think this is the list you can use.

Now as for the technique itself, you want to do the first 250 kanji or so to understand how primitives work. Then you do the kanji in the RTK Lite sequence. Whenever you see a primitive you didn't learn yet, just flip backward through the (book) pages, and learn the primitives (the ones with a * instead of a frame number).

Thanks, you two. That helped a lot. (: