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Now, I wouldn't sneak into the "I'm finished" thread for this 準功, but I just hit the half way mark in RtK1! 
Rewarded myself with a copy of Heisig's RtKana. Taking a few days off adding new kanji to properly learn the kana (I memorized them by brute force about a year ago, but need to refresh, and suspect that with the Heisig method I'll do a better job this time). I'll keep up reviewing my current stacks even during the short break; plenty enough horror stories shared here about letting the expired cards build up.
Thanks to everyone for all the great stories that have helped me get this far!
Glass of Kanji half FULL...Sweet! 
I'm only at 710, should be halfway by the end of December with a estimated completion time of April '08 which will also be the 1 year anniversary of me starting studying Japanese seriously, should be a nice reward
vosmiura wrote:
Congrats! Don't leave the learning waiting too long though! It is easier to stay in the groove than to get in the groove.
You know, I started feeling nervous about this as soon as I wrote that. I've been promising myself a little break for kana when I hit 1022 kanji, but now that the time comes I'm really afraid of loosing momentum. So...
Got 10 hirigana nailed last night...and another 24 kanji cards in my shirt pocket right now. 
What worked for me is just staying consistent. Doing all my outstanding reviews every day, followed by learning twenty-something new ones.
After 1000, 1500 didn't seem to take long. Well... about 25 days, but since I just made it a rule to study every day, I made progress just as sure as the sun rises .
However when I had a few very busy days at work, I was too tired to study any new kanji. I just did all my reviews on those days. Getting back into learning more was harder after even a short break.
Last edited by vosmiura (2007 November 29, 12:11 pm)
Congrats guys! Keep it going, trust me RtK1 time won't be wasted, just you wait
Congrats! Keep it up!
I actually got to 1300 before having to take a massive break. I was reviewing all the needed kanji daily along with learning 50 new ones. I then had a complete concentration lapse for whatever reason and I struggled to review 10 a day. I carried on learning new kanji, expired ones built up, I delayed on the blue ones (to awful effect) and was soon well over 1000 deep in expiries/fails. 
I've been spending the last month or so clawing my way back out (at the expense of learning new ones) and it's been really tough. But I'm FINALLY managing to fight the mountain and turn them into greens.
Only problem being I haven't touched the actual book in way too long. I'm tempted to pick it up again but I may as well push all the expiries down to the 4th column now that's I've got this far.
i remember i was around 1300 and hit a big wall, i quited remembering the kanji for a year doing other things, in retro-spect a bad thing!
learn from mine mistake and keep going.
now im back again at 950 and espect to hit the half way mark soon.
it is intresting that stories come back even after al that time, even if mine where a bit shallow, when the "person" part comes up i will fly trough it
Finished lesson 27 today. Means I got half the Kanji down. Posting here is just some kind of small reward for myself. 
I started on the 27th of February. At my current rate I should be finished around April 25th to April 29th. I hope I can keep it up that way. Anyway, as I understand, many people find the Kanji from 1000-1200 difficult. Guess I'll have to see how good I'll do.
Off to another 1000 then.
