I'm restarting RtK so we'll see how it goes, but here's a little rant.

I was going through RtK, oh, 3 or 4 months ago, at a very fast pace. 40-60 new cards a day.

and I was doing it! I wasn't half bad. I was kind of rushing the stories, my mistake, and emphasizing writing over imagining stories, but it was working for me.

Until I hit the longer chapters.

See, until about chapter 18ish (I forget exactly), chapters were about, anyhwere from 20-50 cards long.
Perfect for my rate of learning, because I did at max about 60 so I could do like 2-3 chapters, or 1 long chapter.

But then the 90 card chapters showed up, then like a 120 card chapter.

I could not sit with myself not finishing a chapter for some reason, I HAD to finish, even if it meant splitting it up among two or three LONG sessions in one day, I had to finish off the chapter by the end of the day.

that really killed me and I ended up getting to 999 (yes, I hated it so much at that point that I didn't even add the 1000th card) and quitting because of the burn and failing cards and everything falling on me as I realized the last 300 cards weren't really in my memory.

Why did Heisig feel like adding such long chapters was a good idea? It really killed me back then.

I've grown wiser since then but I think about what would have happened if I hadn't burned out and where I would be with my language learning now if I had continued from then. I would probably know all the Kanji up to 3000 and be in the midst of vocab and sentences...

oh well, can't change the past, only the future. but still, Heisig why?!