Congratulations!  And best of luck on your continued studies.

I did it! Yes! Damn I'm tired... I forced myself to do the last 750 starting from new years day. But yeah, wahoo!

I may have to make a topic about what the hell I do next but regardless, I'm on yosh street.

adutrifoy wrote:

AndamanIslander wrote:

Tell us, how does it FEEL?!

It feels really great :-)

Congratulations, Virtua_Leaf!

Thanks a lot. You too!

You're all my heros. Please move in with me and quiz me on a continuous basis. In my sleep even.

Just created my final set of flashcards.
I started at the end of September of last year and have been doing it fairly consistently since then. I only found out about the site when I was over half way through the book - but it's been a great help.

I also made paper index cards and now have a stack that reaches to my knee!

Now to get everything into the forth stack

Japanese wise I'll probably move on to the sentence gathering method - but I'll be gathering my early sentences from text books (handbook of Japanese verbs, basic sentence patterns etc) I've already got a few 100 in Anki, and I've been using Yahoo dictionary to get extra sentences for words I want more practise of.

Good luck every one who's still trying and congratulations to everyone who finished - it shows a good amount of will power

There are no stupid 'thank you' posts here. Congrats Codexus and Balaam.

ファブリス wrote:

What timcampbell said, well done! 76 days? What do you guys eat?!

Kanji, I suppose.

Congratulations.

DONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it's 00:24 AM here in japan ... Everyone else must be sleeping but f... that !
I feel really relieved even if now I have to cope with my stack of failed and review cards.... But it gives me momentum and I feel like topping down a mountain now!
Especially since japanese teachers were maybe a bit skeptic or insulted that I allege to learn all the joho kanji (in fact there are even more kanjis ...) within 4 months.... It was sometimes hard to carry on studying while I found scepticism and misunderstanding with almost everyone else even among my fellowstudents ....I had to take this road alone and sometimes my teachers even hindered me cause they didn't think it was that important and asked me to focus more on my test and homework otherwise I'll be likely to go down a class....
Even if I told them that I still have to learn the yomikata they still stuck with their "crash burn method" ....  Right now I had already a couple of occasions to correct them wich made me feel really great (correct japenese on their language ...)  but I'm still  very far from them and a bit sloppy with the writing ...
But it's a landmark in my road to the fluency in japanese .... I just begun japanese 4 months ago and I still have 6 month at least in japan.... I wonder which level can I allege to reach within this time ? for example with JPLT....  I like to think that it's just now that it's really beginning : now I must really pick japanese everywhere (even if obviously there are still a lot of kanji I don't know , they have different meanings , the compounds is something totally different ,etc...)  , all the time  as khatzu says .... Now i can really deal with the true japanese culture and not only with those manuals for dummies ...
I'm still a bit curious about that : to what extent will I be able to eat japenese all the time ? Until now I could condone my affairs with other langaguages in wich I felt more at ease ... But starting next week I will really try to spend all my leisure time on japanese....

And I still have an other award : I still didn't look the latin sentence at the end of the book . Just took a non intentionna glance when I was flipping the book ..... I hope it's worth the ordeal....

Woo!  Well they say third time's a charm and that certainly proved to be the case for me.  I first tried Heisig about two years ago but fizzled out around 500 and then tried again but only made it up to 850.  After clearing those intial 850 kanji from the expired stacks (and truthfully relearning many of the characters), I picked up where I left off on January 13 and completed the remaining 1192 or so between then and now, February 16th.  Looking back, I definitely should've tried to rush through it 2 years ago.  My slow pace back then (and the fact that this site wasn't around or, at least, I didn't know about it yet) can probably be faulted for my failure.

Now all I need to worry about is getting all the cards into  the "four or more reviews" stack, and that will likely take a while.  But by no longer having to add 40 or so characters a day I can concentrate more on learning Japanese and reinforcing my kanji knowledge that way.

A sincere thanks to Fabrice and everyone else here, couldn't have done it without this site and the many brilliant stories everyone has contributed.

YES!

At 11:30 PM (my local time), February 18, 2008 ... I finished.  I started on December 2, 2007, after reading a post that Codexus made in another forum.  That makes 78 days in total.

I started out skeptical, that first day.  I was converted within an hour of course, once I saw the method working ... still, especially over these last few weeks, it's turned into something of an inner battle to push myself to get this done.  Cumulatively, there were at least a few weeks in which I learned NOTHING new ... I was only reviewing.


Finally, around Thursday of last week, I realized I was just a bit over 200 kanji away from my goal, and I decided to push myself to finish.  Now, 78 days since my first venture into Heisig's method (and my first review on this site), I've added the 2042nd card into the first stack.

I'd like to thank every member of the community, for the free motivational support.  Reading the posts on this forum was often one of the only things keeping the fire under my butt from going out.  I'd also like to extend special thanks to Fabrice (for creating this incredible, free resource) and Codexus (without whom, I never would've tried RTK, and thus, would still only be able to recognize about 200 kanji at this point).


YAAAYYY! 幸

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I just finished up today.

This Fukushima inaka winter has been very conducive to kanji study.. haha   I'm so happy to be through the book, now I'm going to be hammering anki and pushing those cards back a few stacks a week or two before I start with memory palaces for Onyomi.
 
I'm more of a lurker than a poster, but I just wanted to say thank you to everyone in the Rvtk community.  This is hands down the best Japanese resource site I've ever come across.　

Hi all,
By the standards of this thread I probably should have posted sooner but as of today I have over 1800 kanji in the final column.  I consider that finished although I'll keep doing daily reviews 'cause it doesn't take much time and I do still forget kanji. I worked through the book in about six weeks which was a bit intense but I enjoyed it.  I owe it all to this website.  When I started working through the book I got to the point where he suggests making flashcards.  I thought yeah I better do that but I'm lazy so I'll see if by any chance someone has already done it on the web.  And sure enough here was this site.  I couldn't believe my luck.
Thanks to all of you with such incredible stories.  I didn't post many stories because I only made a story public if I thought it was unique in some way and it would possibly help others.  My best stories were probably those that only make sense to me.
Despite my accomplishment I have a long way to go.  I'm plugging away at sentences in ANKI (thanks Resolve, another indispensable tool).  I never expected to take up a foreign language at age 40 and I certainly didn't imagine I could learn to read Japanese, but I did and I am so go me.

.. and in 6 weeks! (x_X)