So I took a small break on learning Japanese during the Spring, which caused my Anki decks to build up in size.

Going through my Core and grammar decks to catch up is no problem at all, actually I am enjoying it quite a bit, but the RTK deck is honestly a pain in the ass to sort through. Plus the fact that the keywords are in English make me think that I'm not getting enough results for all the work required to go through the deck.

So I was thinking of giving up on the RTK deck and just keeping up the Core/grammar reviews while building up on further vocab/grammar rules. The stuff I remember from going through RTK still helps me with the Core deck although I have forgot quite a few keywords I can still recognize the primitives rather effortlessly.

It doesn't really sound like it would hurt my progress at all, but what do you think?

I just used the site's SRS.
It's online so I can access it form anywhere that has internet and I don't have to do any work. I just have to learn the kanji and type in the number of kanji I'm on at the end of every day to add them automatically to the site's SRS.

I mean - I went through RtK1 during the Winter and had added the according number of kanjis to my Anki deck, so roughly 2100 cards or so. Now I have 1950 of them to review and I find that to be overwhelming for the rather lackluster results at this stage. It just doesn't feel like a worthwhile investment any more.

If you feel that you're pretty familiar with the characters and if you're quite a bit into real Japanese studies then RTK has kind of fulfilled its main purpose, hasn't it?

I've got close to 700 reviews due after neglecting my deck, but I finished adding the characters over a year ago. It's pretty easy to go through them if I set it to review cards from largest interval, so I want to catch up and keep it up as a production deck to practice writing. I want to get the most out of the effort I've gone through and I want to try to teach myself basic calligraphy as well.

If you want to be able to hand write kanji at will, it would probably be best to maintain your RTK deck.

If reading ability is what you want and you are comfortable with your RTK knowledge, the deck isn't really necessary.

I found RTK to continue to be very helpful even after learning to read all the jyouyou kanji. Practicing writing them helped me be able to differentiate their meaning. I also find RTK to be a really fun confidence-boosting warm-up every morning, but I'm crazy and really love writing kanji by hand.

erlog Wrote:I found RTK to continue to be very helpful even after learning to read all the jyouyou kanji. Practicing writing them helped me be able to differentiate their meaning. I also find RTK to be a really fun confidence-boosting warm-up every morning, but I'm crazy and really love writing kanji by hand.

Apart of the "learning to read all the jyouyou kanji" bit, you sound very much like me