Done! Took about 6 months, now what?!?

Woohoo! Finally entered frame 2042 into stack one today! I started at the start of August, so it's taken me just over 4 months to get here...

As much as I enjoyed studying Heisig, I'm *so* glad that's over. Now I can get on with the next stage, sentences.

Next time I post on this thread, it'll be when I have 2042 in stack 4

A big thanks to the site and community, it's definitely made the whole process easier!

Man, thought I'd never finish, but I got through 2042 today. Now, To get 90% consistently then tackle RTK3 in a month or two.

finally after just over 4 months i've finished all 2042 Kanji damm it feels so good, although i did add 62 today so im dreading the review in a few days lol.

A huge thanks to this website and its community without the support and peoples stories i may have never made it this far.

Now onto sentances and keeping up with the kanji reviews daily i hope soon they go down from over 100 like i've had every day for the past few weeks lol

My turn! Done!
Bit less than 6 months

Congrats to both of you!

Wow, I added #2042 today... So, I finally get to post in this thread!

The funny thing is that there's not really an exact point at which one finishes the book per se. I actually finished going through the book a day or two ago, but only just now added and tested the final cards to get to 2042. Not only that, but I didn't get 'em all  right (丑 was missed out of the last batch, since I messed up slightly on one stroke. ). All together, I checked and found 5 kanji that I have never yet tested and gotten correct, so perhaps I'll only be able to claim 2042 once I get every kanji right at least once. But I usually review in the 90% range, so I guess I'm doin' ok.

On to my main point... MANY thanks to Fabrice and everyone involved in adding stories to this site. I'm not the first person to express thanks in this thread, and I will likely not be the last... Heisig has come up with an awesome learning system, and Fabrice's website has made made it into a community experience. Using the SRS makes everything really helpful, and this website is very well-made and accessible. The community aspects of it - allowing people to add stories - it simply brilliant. I've made up many of my own stories of course, but with help from many ideas from others. Many times, I'd come up with a kanji that just seemed confusing until I scrolled down and found a memorable story that completely made the odd kanji easy to learn.

Thanks again everyone! See you in RTK3!

stehr wrote:

@Tobberoth,&nwatkins: Congrats ! will you be moving on to RTK3 ?

Nah, I've actually decided to skip RtK3. I've already read some stuff with my RtK1 completed and I must say, the jouyou kanji are a very good subset. I haven't really run into any unknown kanji yet and when I do, I will just learn it myself instead. From what I see, most of the kanji in RtK3 are mainly used in names.. and while that is good to know, there are so many kanji used in names NOT covered in RtK3, so I just feel like it's just learning another subset which isn't as useful. Names are almost impossible to read even when you know the kanji, so I don't think it's vital at all.

From now on, I'm learning mainly though context.

Sweet! Threads like this one make me believe that I can do it too.

~1.5 years later!

that includes long stretches of inactivity and basically starting over from around card 500 twice. i've gone through steady periods of adding ten or twenty cards a day, and marathons like today where i was just too close and sprinted through the last 150 cards. i was sitting at ~1800 for a long long time because my review pile was over 1500 and I never had the time to do them. Finally one night I just clicked through them as fast as I could. If I didn't know the character immediately I failed it. Then I moved big chunks of cards from the fail pile every time i reviewed and got my momentum back. Now I still have about half of my cards in the fail pile but a lot of those just need a quick story refresher.

Many thanks to all I stole stories from. I would have given up long ago without them.

And many thanks to Fabrice for one of the most useful sites on the Internet. I suggest all of you who feel the same to set up a small Paypal subscription to show your appreciation.

I'll post again when I've got over %80 in pile 4 cause I'm not really "done" yet.

I just realized that this site had a forum lol, but yes I finished RTK1.

I'm doing the AJATT method and I've got up to 1750 sentences (whoo!). I also just started RTK3 a few days ago, I might know like 20 of those?

But yes, congratulate me

P.S. this is a great site, very useful

I just finished my first review of the last characters from RTK1.  I'm so happy to be (sort of) done.  Now that I've taken care of last year's new year's resolutions, maybe I can work on the ones from this year.  :-)

PS -- thanks to all who shared helpful stories, to Woelpad for the great scripts, and to Fabrice for the site.  I started RTK several years ago but gave up after the stories went away and my handwritten paper flashcards started getting mixed up and lost.  Little orphan flashcards still show up now and then in odd places, but this was a lot easier to use.

Last edited by KristinHolly (2009 January 03, 9:03 am)