RTK reviews aren't going below 130+

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Reply #1 - 2012 August 27, 12:12 am
somstuff Member
Registered: 2012-06-18 Posts: 65

Been done with RTK for about 15 days and my reviews don't seem to be going down. Is this normal, do you guys have similar experiences? I think a big part of the problem is the keywords and those images are getting confused with actual Japanese words that I'm learning. So even kanji that I previously knew very well are getting failed. Anyone have advice?

Reply #2 - 2012 August 27, 1:04 am
bertoni Member
From: Mountain View, CA, USA Registered: 2009-11-08 Posts: 291

I'd stop adding new cards, if you haven't already, and just work at it.  It takes a while to get going, in my experience.  My learning rate went up dramatically as I went through the book.  If the reviews are too much, you could just suspend some of the later cards, too.

Reply #3 - 2012 August 27, 2:29 am
EratiK Member
From: Paris Registered: 2010-07-15 Posts: 874

Tweak the keywords: start adding a reading and/or a word. You can also add tags like 1, 2, 3... a, b, c... (sand b, loneliness 1... ). Reviews'll be going down after about a month.

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Reply #4 - 2012 August 27, 2:50 am
Stian Member
From: England Registered: 2012-06-21 Posts: 426

I add Japanese words to my keywords, like:

Woman おんな　じょ性
Salary きゅう料
Extinguish け・す
Music らく　おん楽 (edit: of course, it's 音がく)
Kill ころ・す

and so on. I'm not done with RtK yet, but I have 100-200 kanji with additional Japanese "hints."

Last edited by Stian (2012 August 27, 12:26 pm)

Reply #5 - 2012 August 27, 2:55 am
partner55083777 Member
From: Tokyo Registered: 2008-04-23 Posts: 397

somstuff wrote:

Been done with RTK for about 15 days and my reviews don't seem to be going down. Is this normal, do you guys have similar experiences? I think a big part of the problem is the keywords and those images are getting confused with actual Japanese words that I'm learning. So even kanji that I previously knew very well are getting failed. Anyone have advice?

Are you using Anki?  This is normal.

This is just off the top of my head, but your reviews should start going down in about 25-30 days, and you should see dramatic drops by the time you get to 50-60 days.  But really, it's a gradual process.

Reply #6 - 2012 August 27, 3:01 am
warakawa Banned
From: Melbourne Registered: 2012-08-06 Posts: 149

from my experience, I had to fix up majority of the keywords, RTK uses weird keywords that most of the time does not represent the kanji, they use the keywords they use because they want to each keyword to be unique.

Reply #7 - 2012 August 27, 3:13 am
nooaia Member
Registered: 2012-06-28 Posts: 18

Stian wrote:

I add Japanese words to my keywords, like:

Woman おんな　じょ性
Salary きゅう料
Extinguish け・す
Music らく　おん楽
Kill ころ・す

and so on. I'm not done with RtK yet, but I have 100-200 kanji with additional Japanese "hints."

I do the same.
It works.

Reply #8 - 2012 August 27, 12:14 pm
somstuff Member
Registered: 2012-06-18 Posts: 65

I'll definitely add stuff to the keywords. Thanks for the tips.

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