20-30 a day is a great pace.  There is so much emphasis on speed, but quality over quantity man! It's better to do it at a regular steady pace, and make those kanji stick, then to overload, and burn out.  I have tried both ways, and I really think 20-30 is perfect, as the reviews will pace nicely as well.

You've probably passed the 500 mark by now mypapa12 so congrats! I should be getting their soon enough currently on 450, trying to kick it up to 30-40 a day. Going good so far, let's see if i can keep the pace!

CerpinTaxt wrote:

You've probably passed the 500 mark by now mypapa12 so congrats!

Thank you very much! This encouragement thread is really good for me.

CerpinTaxt wrote:

I should be getting their soon enough currently on 450, trying to kick it up to 30-40 a day. Going good so far, let's see if i can keep the pace!

You're going faster than me, I'm at kanji #555, I try to do no more than 25 kanjis every day, and I review a lot (2 Anki decks on my laptop, 2 Anki decks on my desktop computer, kanji.koohii.com and test.koohii.com

Yoga, take 10 minute breaks from the other activity for a 10 minute session on RTK.  then go back to whatever you were doing.  it shouldnt take any longer than a minute or 2 for each new kanji.  as for reviews.  initial review of each kanji shouldn't take any longer than a minute.  if you dont know, look up the story, refresh in mind and move on to the next kanji.

wax on wax off.  over and over again every day.

just keep plugging away.  this may be easy for me but i have pretty much secluded myself from the known world locking myself away in my basement other than the hour every other day i go running and the 15 hours a week i work at my part time job.

trying to get all of the RTK book 3  finished before i start my job up in japan because 33 hours a week and a social life again will make thiis harder to do.

I thought I should write on this as an encouragement to my self .  I  went on a trip to the USA for 7 days... came back with 225 in my review box.  Not bad, except I had learned about 130 kanji on the 12 hour car rides.  So its been a month since I have learned any kanji (617 Kanji so far) and it did bring me down... makes me angry than anything but since I have to devote myself to university b/c I have decided to because a doctor = need a higher GPA than now + MCAT in the future.  On top of that I am dealing with a nagging addiction that seems to be taking a lot of my time away.  So here I am, after spent about 3 hours reviewing another 200 kanji in my review box and I have to brute force 50 kanji in my failed category to finally have all empty boxes so I can finally start new kanji!  If anyone needs encouragement It certainly is me b/c anger can only take me so far.     

Thanks

-wulf

Use one and only one SRS: review here or review with Anki.  Extra review is actually counter-productive: it hurts the stabilization of your memory.

EDIT: let me expand on this a bit.  You are going to forget some kanji as you go along.  This is entirely normal, so don't sweat it.  All you have to do is relearn whichever ones you can't write, which doesn't take much time at all.

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Resurrected

The New Year is coming soon, so I figure this would be a good way to help each other stay focused.

頑張ろ

vinniram wrote:

I'm at 677, and I'm feeling like this is never going to end So many people are talking about what you do AFTER RtK, like 2001: A Kanji Odyssey, and Tae Kim. I want to get into that fun stuff, but first I have to finish this incredible task. And it seems like it will never end Apparently I'm not even at the "hard" part yet, so what's it gonna feel like then!?!? This lesson 23, despite all the sexual-themed stories it allows for, has been largely offputting I just want to actually learn Japanese, but I guess there's this never ending obstacle to overcome first Overcoming this is harder than a teenager overcoming the needle -_-

Don't worry about it, we were all there. I had already studied Japanese for a long time when I started RtK so at times it felt extremely boring and I wanted to go back to my old studies. Trust me, it's worth it.

As for the hard parts, I personally don't think it changes all that much. The first few chapters are very simple but after that the book is pretty even I'd say. Some chapters are harder than others but that's about it.

I guess I'm a little different. I have no problem going through RtK, but I'm more unsure of how to go on next. I'm only around 250 kanji left until the end of RtK1, but seeing manga/novels/stuff in Japanese and not knowing how to read them is a discouragement for me. I know I'm supposed to be encouraged by recognizing the kanji, but not knowing how to read them or not knowing whatever keigo that are associated with the kanji actually make me realize how many readings that I would have to learn in the coming years.

I'm starting back up again...after like 3 months of nada. -_-;

I feel bad.

And lesson 18 is kicking my butt....gah! I must pull through!!! I shall be finished before junior year is over! I must!! \( *o*)/

I am at #735 and progressing slowly but surely It just takes consistency. Even studying 5 or 10 new Kanji a day is better than waiting for a week and doing 20.

Good luck everybody!

mezbup wrote:

intermu wrote:

I guess I'm a little different. I have no problem going through RtK, but I'm more unsure of how to go on next. I'm only around 250 kanji left until the end of RtK1, but seeing manga/novels/stuff in Japanese and not knowing how to read them is a discouragement for me. I know I'm supposed to be encouraged by recognizing the kanji, but not knowing how to read them or not knowing whatever keigo that are associated with the kanji actually make me realize how many readings that I would have to learn in the coming years.

Cheer up

Reading is a total mind**** straight after you've just finished RTK. It comes to you in time with vocab and grammar. I strongly suggest the sentence approach via something like core2000 or KO2001 for your first 2000 - 3000 vocab words. After that tbh it's easy enough to ditch sentences and just add vocab items to your deck because you can read enough to actually want to read Japanese in your day.

You'll get there.

Thanks!

So it's pretty much just another set of reviews and SRS like this for a while more? I hope I can take a few more months.

I'll keep the next step in mind, I haven't specifically pointed myself in a direction after RtK1. :\