Oh Em Gee. I have waited sooooooo long for this day.

やったぁぁぁぁぁぁぁ～！！！！！！！！！！！！

The last couple of kanji were surprisingly easy.

Okay, okay, so I went to look up the translation of that Latin sentence, and I got "Bid farewell melior , Pain teeth wicked!"

So what does it mean?

Last edited by Squintox (2008 October 05, 4:53 pm)

Finished!  Now onto finding sentances to put in an SRS.

Woot finally finished RTK1. Damn it feels good too.  Took me just under 6 freakin months with a begginning plan of doing it in 3-4 months.  I still have crap loads of reviews but not near as bad as the guys finishing in 1-2months.  I have 1,223 in deck 4 or greater ...but i have 262 failed kanji( bang those out in a couple days) hehe.  I have noticed a huge difference in my train of thought when i see japanese text.  I can at least get the gist of what is going on thanks to keywords. 

Now I am off to doing UBJG/KO 2001/RtK3(once reviews tone down) simultaneoulsy. 
To all those that are still on the path...keep at it, dont stop reviewing...it just makes it worse lol.

heyy thx man! I have 11,742...but wow 26k?? jesus lol.

Keep at 200 will fly like crazy.

Woohoo!  The RTK1 monkey is finally off my back!!!

It was tough, but thanks to all the creative minds on this board, I have finally finished on my 3rd attempt (got stopped around 600 the first time and around 900 the second time, years and years ago, before SRS and this site).

Lesson 54 with the Trojan Horse was excellent - I wished all the lessons went that smoothly.  Also, the Bruce Lee character made up for some kick-ass stories in the end!

My notebooks show that, including practice and testing, 21,600 reviews in the bank, including 6,648 on this site.  One notebook contains 20,000 reviews.  Besides using this site, I have also been using jMemorize to reinforce my learning.

Now, my next steps (concurrent) will be:
- JLPT2 grammar & reading comprehension
- Kanji in Context vocabulary
- RTK3 very slowly

Ah...  ...forgot - will have to reward myself with an iPod Touch tomorrow

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kfmfe04 wrote:

Ah...  ...forgot - will have to reward myself with an iPod Touch tomorrow

haha i rewarded myself with a macbook pro LOL...little bit overkill i think but hey

2042字大成功!!

Finally I passed the 2042 mark. Although I don't write a lot around here I want to thank this forum and it's members because a lot of posts here provided me with much needed information and especially motivation. Actually I had given up at the beginning of lesson 23 because I thought the reviews were too timeconsuming. But thanks to the this website and the power of the SRS I gave it a second try - and finally succeeded.
Thanks to all of you, congratulations to those who finished and those who did not finish yet: Hang on! It's worth the effort.

I usually study one enjoyable hour a day. After 8 months I have completed 800 kanjis. Maybe I am sort of retarded person ... considering all the quick young people here ...

Finished! I think I was more excited last week when I had about 100 to go then I am actually finishing it today. Took me 5 months 5 days.... First 1000 I did in two weeks. Wow, anyone else have such a discrepancy between first and second 1000?

Finally can get back to REAL Japanese!

It's a done deal!  Landed on the snake (巳) about 30 minutes ago.   This accomplishment feels great!  Future plans consist of starting the sentence method. 

I've been following strictly, the AJATT method, so my environment (listening) has been on non-stop in the past 2 months since I've started RTK1 (when no class or work is in session, of course).  My listening comprehension has noticeably grown since I've started AJATT, so I think I'm ready to tackle the sentence method.

For those almost home, keep it up!

dhanyavaada wrote:

I usually study one enjoyable hour a day. After 8 months I have completed 800 kanjis. Maybe I am sort of retarded person ... considering all the quick young people here ...

Not at all. Many here are boosting through as fast as possible AND spending MANY hours a day. If the speed feels right for you, you prove you're NOT retarded by following that speed.

dhanyavaada wrote:

I usually study one enjoyable hour a day. After 8 months I have completed 800 kanjis. Maybe I am sort of retarded person ... considering all the quick young people here ...

That's about 3 kanji per day.  Does the 1 hour per day include reviewing?  20 minutes per story does sound a bit extreme, but if it works for you, keep at it.