way to go uberstuber!

Congrats, uberstuber!

uberstuber Wrote:I'll continue my studies via the method described at http://alljapaneseallthetime.com.

And good luck with your post-RTK study plans. Let us know how you get along with this method.

Thank you all my RTK friends for your memorable stories, your programming wizardry and your company. (You were no doubt the only people who could relate to what I've been up to for the past four months!)

A deep bow, of course, to Fabrice; to Woelpad & Ricardo for their greasemonkey stuff; and to Ziggr & Pangolin for help with review methods and the list of primitives. I benefited from all of it.

And now time to go out and celebrate! (if I can even carry on a normal conversation with nothing but bizarre Heisig images popping involuntarily into my brain...)

march on my kanji comrades...I hope you achieve your goals.

Congratulations!

You did well to stay out of the forums for those four months...

Yey, I've just finished making stories for the last two chapters. I was aiming to finish by the end of May, but for some reason stopped with about 300 to go. June came and went before I knew what had happened and I didn't want the same to happen to July as well!! I think making it a habit is half the battle (although I have no trouble keeping up with my daily reviews...).

I have to say, I didn't like the last chapter much. I guess it's to be expected that there would be a set of odds and ends that didn't fit elsewhere.

Congrats Thora and Mighty_Matt, what are your plans after RtK1?

[ファブリス]

Let's see who I didn't congratulate since my last post here...

*drum rolls* Congratulationssssss aircawn, Zareon, fragileshards, suishoo, dilandau23, HerrPetersen, Chadoro_K, fluxcapacitor, akrodha, suffah, uberstuber, wzafran, Thora and Mighty_Mouse! woops, Mighty_Matt!

Welcome to RtK1's retirement club!

Yeah, congrats, all.

ファブリス Wrote:Welcome to RtK1's retirement club!

Oh, really? I was thinking of it more like purgatory before RTK III.

Congratulations, everyone!

Thora, I'm glad to know I could help a little bit.

And now, it's my time to say thank you all! Today I finished RTK 1!

Fabrice, you are the man! Thank you for everything!

Everyone who shared even one simple story, thank you!

Now I'm ready for the next steps, whatever they might be. Just what lies ahead? Only one way to find out...

Quote:Valeant benefici,
Poenas dent malefici!

Indeed!

Dr. Hellsing Wrote:Valeant benefici,
Poenas dent malefici!

Mild curiosity, but what does that mean? I was sort of miffed when I couldn't even read the summation of my efforts.

Well done to everyone who finished RTK1 recently.

Megaqwerty Wrote:Mild curiosity, but what does that mean? I was sort of miffed when I couldn't even read the summation of my efforts.

Yeah, but presumably you got the meaning through context.

Knowing very little Latin, but just looking at what he wrote, the words valiant, benefit, magnificent look like what he might be getting at...grammar being taken care of by 'Poenas dent' - whatever that is.

EDIT: after reading _Qbe_'s post below, perhaps I should have googled first!

Congratulations to those of you who have finished. Reading this thread today has given me the motivation to start my fourth push to finish RTK.

Megaqwerty Wrote:

Dr. Hellsing Wrote:Valeant benefici,
Poenas dent malefici!

Mild curiosity, but what does that mean? I was sort of miffed when I couldn't even read the summation of my efforts.

According to my email archives (I love Gmail) we discussed this on the RTK mailing list/Yahoo group in January '06.

"Valeant" and "dent" are subjunctives, so I think that it would go something like this:

Let/may those who do good be strong;
let/may those who do evil pay the penalty.

Or, a little more colloquially,

May the good guys do well,
May the rest go to h***.

Four years of college Latin all comes down to this?

Ricardo, congrats, and thanks for the scripts!

ファブリス Wrote:Let's see who I didn't congratulate since my last post here...

*drum rolls* Congratulationssssss ... Mighty_Mouse! woops, Mighty_Matt!

Welcome to RtK1's retirement club!

I was going to report this post, but decided that as you wrote it nothing would happen :p

And Fabrice, I was slightly disapointed there wasn't a small congratulations screen when I entered the final kanji to the site...

hey guys well done, i couldnt face opening this thread as i still had a ton to go. That is untill recently. I finished the book a week ago but waited to try and get the final kanji into the group 2/3 boxes which i have now done.!!!!

Id really like to say a big thanks to fab for the site and for his mr t idea. Ricardo gets a big shout out to for his proxy. I could never use this site at my job due to the it deptartments refusal to allow me to setup the japanese fault. But then ricardo setup the proxy and i just got the it department back by spending 3 hours a day at work studying muh ha ha ha!!!

right now its japanese all the time style! woohooo.

sorry that should have read

I could never use this site at my job due to the it deptartments refusal to allow me to setup the japanese ***FONT*****.

its late and ive just finished reviewing.

_Qbe_ Wrote:May the good guys do well,
May the rest go to h***.

Four years of college Latin all comes down to this?

I really laughed out loud when I read that -- Good one!

I am amazed at all of you folks who are finishing in 2 months and change! Good grief: what an inspiring site! Congratulations, all!

Finished!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The first half of the book went pretty fast, but the last bit was like molasses...I honestly don't think I would have made it without this site to get ideas from. Special thanks to scottamus for Trixie the stripper ho, IvoSF for Captain Picard, and dingomick for the city of Pinnacle, but also to everyone who very kindly shared their stories - I tried to add wherever I thought I could contribute! Also thanks to everyone on the forums for providing inspiration, advice, and a source of procrastination. Finally, super-special-uber thanks to フアブリス for making such an awesome site.

I don't think I have the stomach to move on to RTK3 just yet, so I think I'm going to spend some time working on a couple manga I've been struggling through while I let my cards march on into the later boxes. Also, RTK seems to have usurped all of my go-playing time, so I think it's high time I got back to that :-)

皆さん、どうもありがとうございます。いつか日本で会ったらビールを一本買って上げますよ。

Well, I finally made it... :-D

I've studied Japanese for maybe 5 years now. I was frustrated that I would usually draw a blank when writing Japanese unless I had been doing it every day. I needed a way to remember kanji without the continual exposure, and then I discovered Heisig's method. I started in Nov. 2005 and slowly made my way up to 1000. I'm a very busy student (physics & mathematics) and Japanese is only a hobby of mine that doesn't get much time due to my studies. I would have intense spurts during school breaks, but besides that I had to completely neglect RTK while in school. These long hiatuses caused almost all of my cards to expire before my next school break, and I ended up having to redo these 1000 a couple of times.

This summer I got another chance to work on RTK. I reviewed my 1000 expired cards and decided to plow through the rest. I set a pace of at least 30 new kanji per day, so it took me just over 1 month, just in time before I start graduate school. I'm hoping somehow, no matter what, I can keep up on my reviews during grad school. Otherwise, it's going to be terrible to review 2000+ expired cards, if I were ever able to find the time for it >_<.

I'd like to thank everyone who contributed stories, and dingomick in particular since his stories were either exactly what I was thinking or even better. Fabrice, I couldn't have achieved my goal without this site. Thanks for your generosity and hard work. I'm transferring a gift via PayPal, so go out and have some drinks or whatnot on me.

Cheers!

Congratulations, radical_tyro, on both RTK1 and the degree in Physics! Either one is quite an achievement. Both are downright impressive.

Hey radical_tyro, congrats! I know what you mean, I'm currently trying to wrap up my Master's in Physics myself, and I know what it means to try juggling RTK and a physics degree.

By the way, where are you going for grad school?

Thanks akrodha. I had a feeling you were studying physics, based on some of your contributed stories which I used. Good luck on finishing up your degree. Do you have any plans to incorporate Japanese with physics? I'm hoping one day maybe I can teach physics in Japan or at least do research there. I'm off to Cornell next week to start the ph.d program in theoretical physic, you?

Oh wow awesome! Congrats on going to Cornell!

I had considered doing a PhD in Japan, but I think I'll stay in Europe for a while longer. I really like it here. Another thing is that I'm doing biophysics, but thankfully I need very little biology. However, this one university in Tokyo requires a GRE in biochemistry... yuck! But maybe I'll be able to find a post-doc position there? I'll see in the future when the time is right.

I wondered if it was possible to teach physics in English (or maybe even German?) at an international school over there. I snooped around the net a bit, but all I could find was teaching the English language.

akrodha,

you probably know about them, but if you don't, look at the JSPS postdoctoral fellowships. there is also the summer program which you can do during your PhD (and it's fun). and you can do both (summer and later postdoc), i did.