A little over a month ago I finished RTK1 by doing 100 per day. Sadly, a day or two afterwards I went to the beach and forgot about studying. I started procrastinating on my Japanese during and after the trip.

Now my question is, how should I handle going back? I think after reading some threads here I feel motivated to continue, but I don't know what to do differently. Should I do something like practice some sentences while reviewing? I don't feel too confident on recognizing most of the kanji right now, so is that even an option?

Mecha Wrote:Now my question is, how should I handle going back?

Just do it... simple. ;D

I think just spending some time working on kanji is necessary if you feel shaky, just put the time in. If you feel ready to move on... start on sentences.

If I were you I'd just start on the post RTK Japanese learning and re-learn kanji as you come to them. The work you did won't be wasted; it will be really easy to learn or re-learn pretty much any kanji you come across, but 2000 kanji is much more than you'll need for a long time, so it's not a disaster that you forget them and it's not important that you re-do RTK. Just prioritise the useful ones.

P.s. I checked and this site saves your stories if you delete flashcards, so if you take my advice you can safely remove all your cards and re-add them when you need to.

Yeah, like Splatted said, start the J-learning with vocab and books, but I'll just add take an hour or two every week to work on your kanji backlog (you used a SRS, right?): if you keep at it every week, the reviews will space, and eventually, you'll have reviewed all with almost no pain.

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Start knocking them down by doing 100 reviews only per day. Then get into doing vocabulary with Core2k.

EratiK Wrote:Yeah, like Splatted said, start the J-learning with vocab and books, but I'll just add take an hour or two every week to work on your kanji backlog (you used a SRS, right?): if you keep at it every week, the reviews will space, and eventually, you'll have reviewed all with almost no pain.

I have been using an SRS, currently I have 2017 reviews due. I think I'm going to focus on gradually depleting the reviews while doing sentences, vocab, etc.

Another question that came to mind is if I should create a separate deck later on that consists of the later kanji that I haven't covered much? Those will most likely be the hardest, and with 2017 reviews due I think it will take time to get to all of them.

Mecha Wrote:Another question that came to mind is if I should create a separate deck later on that consists of the later kanji that I haven't covered much? Those will most likely be the hardest, and with 2017 reviews due I think it will take time to get to all of them.

No need. 2017 may seem like a lot, but if you've been serious, half of them will only take a few seconds to review (like sun, moon... and stuff you had an emotional connection to). Creating another deck would just mess your long term retention patterns. What you can do is add words containing them in your vocab deck, but it really depends how quickly you catch up with your backlog, you could just wait to encounter these words.

Mecha Wrote:

EratiK Wrote:Yeah, like Splatted said, start the J-learning with vocab and books, but I'll just add take an hour or two every week to work on your kanji backlog (you used a SRS, right?): if you keep at it every week, the reviews will space, and eventually, you'll have reviewed all with almost no pain.

I have been using an SRS, currently I have 2017 reviews due. I think I'm going to focus on gradually depleting the reviews while doing sentences, vocab, etc.

Another question that came to mind is if I should create a separate deck later on that consists of the later kanji that I haven't covered much? Those will most likely be the hardest, and with 2017 reviews due I think it will take time to get to all of them.

If you use Anki 2, I think your plan there is worthy of a "filtered deck". Worth investigating.

But yes, the best thing to do is just do them. If you can, sort the reviews by largest interval, that way the easiest ones come first and you can burn through the front 80% like absolutely nothing.

Please be aware that there are more fun and beneficial alternatives to core2k.

This page has some nice info:
http://japaneselevelup.com/2012/02/29/th...ortcoming/