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Good luck ryuusei86! I started learning Japanese several times myself, but this AJATT way keeps me sticking to it. Although progress is stagnating for me, I still do reviews and make up stories for Kanji to come. When I finally find a spot (after reviewing and getting through my huge failed list 
but it's getting smaller again 
yeay for me), I learn some new Kanji.
Meanwhile I'm looking for some J-tv and J-dramas episodes. Although i don't understand a word mostly of the time, It's fun to watch or just listen. luckily some episodes are fan subbed! These things keeps my going, because I really want to understand what they say.
Anyway, my goal is to learn spanish and perhaps Chinese after I become fluent in japanese.
Nukemarine wrote:
34 years old myself (birthday was yesterday). Only really started Japanese 18 months ago with RTK.
Aha, I recognize your user name from the TJP forum. I've posted only a few times there though, as "Jack W." Happy birthday, and I'm almost seven years your senior. 
I'm already beginning to see how this works once one learns kanji (at least their meaning and writing), and then goes back to learn Japanese for real. Looking over some song lyrics I'd copied into an MS Word document, I had a number of "aha moments," which I am guessing become only more frequent with more kanji under one's belt.
And I know what you mean, chillko -- though actually the stories I make up are ones I tend to remember the best, even though the ones I make up usually aren't half as good as the ones I read from others. Or half as filthy. Naughty kids!
It's better not to rush it too much I also have the feeling I could've done more, but in my case it gave me some huge review piles and failed cards. Slowly but steady is also good.
Robatsu wrote:
Just starting 300.
That's me you're seeing in your rear view mirror, I just cleared up through 299. What a lousy number for a lesson to end on, feels like #300 is jumping up and down and laughing at me for not having met it yet.
And yet I'm going to heed this advice and not rush it too much. After all, that first "review pile" is bound to show up tomorrow or the next day. 
bodhisamaya wrote:
Ah, I will be officially 伯父さん in two months as I turn ムロ and fall off my youth pedestal.
If there's any truth at all in anime (which is more than a little unlikely), one goes from "niisan" to "ojisan" at about 27. Small comfort, I know. However, you did have me going on "muro" for longer than it should have been.
I'm rooting for you, musigny -- today's review pile, only my second ever, had well over 100 cards in it, and I can easily imagine several hundred landing on certain days in the review pile of someone more advanced than I am. Guess there's nothing to do but break it up into reasonable sessions, even if it takes a few days just to clear the review stack.
I'm still back at 354, and looked ahead (bad idea) to see some of these big whopping lessons coming up, including the one with some 130 kanji in it. I've calculated that if I now add 24 kanji per day for 28 days, I'll finish lessons 16-27 and be done with those looming huge chapters. That should put me over 500 by the middle of next week, and over 1000 at the end of this run, in the second week of March.
At that point, I leave town myself for several days, but will hopefully have internet access most of that time.
I started a few days back and hit 120 today. I am in no rush and have set myself a minimum of 10 per day. It has been a rewarding process so far, especially considering that I didn't even know what "the kanji" were 6 days ago 
Thanks a lot~! I am allready used to the load other than the parade characters. >.> But I think I will have them down in an hour or so.
I've been stalled around 950 for weeks. Every week I'll add like one lesson and peter out. Hopefully once I break that halfway mark things will start being more consistent.
