Gz, last poster!

Yeah me 2 !!!!, Finally finished it, I feel like a 賓 now. I have to thank destiny for bringing me to this site , because without it I would still be at the 200 mark and remember only 50.

Ok, deep breath , deep breath, time to start RTK3 ( I keep finding kanji that I don't know , but are located in rtk 3).

And for those still trying hard on RTK1, がんばれ！！！！！

Just finished entering in number 2042--it feels so good to "finish" RtK1!

My first attempt was actually about 5 years ago with handwritten flashcards, which petered out at about 400 or so (making my own flashcards seemed to take tons of time). Started again with this site last February--stalled at 1000 when I moved in May and traveled in the summer and restarted again in November before "finishing" today. Since this has been a particularly long road for me, it feels SO good to have completed it. Now I'm scared to stop studying because I don't want to lose what I've learned! I guess it's time to learn Japanese!

I already completed Genki I and have a Japanese friend studying to be a teacher who actually wants to tutor me through Genki II with Skype 2x times a week so I can continue Japanese speaking practice. We'll see how that goes. I will also start putting sentences into Anki now and starting RtK3 a little later when most of the RtK1 kanji are in the 4th stack.

Along with everyone else, I want to thank ファブリス for creating this wonderful site and the many imaginative people who share their stories and those who share their knowledge on the forums. This site is a great gift to those of us studying with Heisig. ありがとう！

I just finished too. WOW. I just finished all my reviews now. Of course I will continue reviewing, but i am so excited that i finished this small step in learning Japanese.

This site has helped me so much in thinking of stories, and creating motivation for me. Thank you everyone.

Finished RTK LITE last week and added around 100 kanjis used in both genki courses. For me RTK 1 is completed then Still notice heavy review sessions every day and am therefore happy to not have gone through all JLPT 1 kanjis.

I've finished learning all my kanjis for first time, now starts bigger conquest of remembering them all My race to JLPT 2 continues. I'll go with Genki textbooks and start to learn vocabulary grouped for kanjis.

I just finished the last lession of RtK1 and it took me 3 months to go through the whole book. Just can't describe how happy I'm now, wow. Working the kanji with Heisig's method has been one one the best decisions I've made in my life. Just three months ago I was a complete beginner in Japanese and the kanji and I could have never thought I could get this good in such a short time.

I really want to thank this site and all the people who contribute to it. Without your help I would still have many more months to go. I will still be reviewing here and go through RtK3 later.

Thanks to you all!

Congratulations Deythibi woohoo, way to go

やった！
Took me 101 days! Hopefully by the end of the month I'll have box 4 90% full...

Thanks to all of you, but especially:
... fuaburisu for the wonderful site
... dingomick, Nukemarine, and bodhisamaya deserve special mention for their great stories
... Katsuo for pointing out when and where combinations show up later, so we can make primitives out of them ahead of time

... everyone for their great attitude!

Oh yes, done. Thanks to all, couldn't have done it without you. And now Heisig, all your kanji is belong to us.

Good job guys. Now snake巳 around the corner. But don't stop to spoon this here 此 kanji. You have a mandate 掟 to reach 3007. Only 20 a day and you can have them all in 7 weeks!

Nah, not yet - taking time off from new kanji to focus on JLPT and 'proper' Japanese. Its full on immersion time...

Finally finished! Just over 2.5 months.

Had been studying Japanese for a year before I got round to starting RKT1 and I really, really wished I had done it at the beginning. Oh well, that's it done now. Got a rather large pile of fail to get rid of over the next few days.

Thanks to everyone whos stories I stole, pilfered and pillaged. I hope the ones I created can be used to help others. Thanks Fab for the site, tis brill.

I finally did it! Took me 7.2 months, but it's there kanji 2042!

Btw, was I the only one who immediately added 璽？ I couldn't stand the idea that I still had a missing jouyou kanji

WHOOOEY

Man that took a long time. 2042 today. Old snakey pants.

I thought about what I was going to write for this thread actually, but I am so kanji'd out atm that I don't know what to say. This took me about 9 months, much longer than I wanted it to. I kept up with reviews pretty well except for a month long lapse before moving to Japan, and I learned how much a lapse will hurt!

My methods are pretty simple - didn't use the site after the first 100 kanji because I wanted to be able to review anywhere, anytime. At first I used mnemosyne on an Asus Eeepc, and then I switched to Anki because it has the web and keitai interface and a better algorithm for short term memory than this site or mnemosyne, in my opinion. Having things down to the hour saves a lot of unnecessary work with practicing. I really love what resolve is doing - he is ultra hot right now...

EXCEPT - where would I be without ファブリス and this amazing, amazing resource - man, having the stories just made the whole process go so much faster, and reading the forums and stuff really kept my motivation up and gave me a break from studying. I will use this site for new kanji in the future. Also, major kudos for the site design - I always think about how damn attractive those flashcards look here. Nice work, you are a genius to me! I am happy to see so many people serious about studying one of the best languages in the world, and we have better tools now than anyone who came before us - let's make the most of it and keep going!

Cheers to us! Now, finally, on to reading my piles of manga I bought from Book Off and AJATT sentence collection and environment.

km

...

It's finally over


* mickal555 emerges from the cave into the light


I used anki, first 600 in a month then reviewed for a month or two

I finished the rest these summer holidays...

34 a day. Sometimes missing days.... Finished with 6 days to spare

Omedetou! Great job! Enjoy the light but don't forget your reviews Reading the posts from people finishing is a great inspiration as I continue to slog through.

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE!

(play on countries yelling goal at a soccer game)


Finally done, in about 4 months. (10.31.08-2.26.09)

And I think I've done pretty well with 1547 cards in 4 or more reviews column as of right now.

I finally finished RTH1 today! Taking into account that there were a few stretches of 4-5 days that I did not do any cards (review or add new ones), I finished in about 6 weeks. I now need to keep going with another character list since volume 2 is not out yet and probably won't be for a while. I need to get to 3000 hanzi (at least), so I need 1500 more! Rick Harbaugh's dictionary should come in handy.

I found that I was able to blaze through the last 400 or so with ease. I am amazed at how well I have trained myself to come up with extremely vivid scenes and imagery. I usually learned around 30-50 characters per day (though I learned ~80-100 a few days and 109 the day before finishing). I now find it plausible to go for 100 per day since the imagery comes somewhat naturally.

Thank you Heisig and Richardson for such a valuable learning tool. I can't wait to add volume 2 to my collection for the complete set!

Just reviewed #2042. *Posts to mark date as milestone reached*
Thanks for the amazing site.

Those of you who finished: Any lessons learned for those of us still working our way through it? What did you wish you had done from the beginning? What worked really well/poorly for you? Any tips on overcoming particularly difficult problems?

Go over the list Kastuo put together that gives hints on what kanji from RTK3 could be building blocks for your stories in RTK1: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=1119

Also get the Rikaichan plugin for Firefox. Hover your mouse over the kanji and the readings and some additional meanings will pop up that might be another clue in creating your stories.

ThomasJ02 Wrote:Those of you who finished: Any lessons learned for those of us still working our way through it? What did you wish you had done from the beginning? What worked really well/poorly for you? Any tips on overcoming particularly difficult problems?

Rely more on visual, more of characters. Stuff like thinking about spiderman instead of thread. If you can think of a good character which still keeps some form of connection to the actual meaning of the character, it will become much easier to create memorable stories.

Today I just passed the "90% in box 4" mark, which is my criterion for "done with RTK1". Naturally, reviews will always be ongoing, but hopefully I can stay in a steady state with box 4 always > 90% full. My reviews are consistently coming in 92% - 96% remembered, so I feel good about the prospects.

joxn_costello Wrote:Today I just passed the "90% in box 4" mark, which is my criterion for "done with RTK1". Naturally, reviews will always be ongoing, but hopefully I can stay in a steady state with box 4 always > 90% full. My reviews are consistently coming in 92% - 96% remembered, so I feel good about the prospects.

Congratulations Joxn. That too was my criteria. Took me two months past the time I added the last story to RevTK.

So what's your next milestone for Japanese?

Hurray, just entered frame 2042 into this wonderful site. Of course I still have reviewing to do but I am finally done with this book. Hopefully it won't be long until I also have 90% in box 4

Thanks again everyone for the motivation and wonderful stories. I speak the truth when I say I would have given up long ago if it were not for this site and community.

Thanks, Nukemarine. My next milestone is to finish the iKnow Core 2000 and 6000. I'm finding that a lot of the native Japanese vocabulary is review, but the kanji compounds are almost all new and actually quite challenging. And somewhere along the line I'm going to come back and do RTK3... once I've managed to dig my copy out of storage.