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I am finished with RTK Volume 1... Took me four months, but it's OVER! Now onto sentence mining 
Thank you so much for setting this site up, there is no way I could've done this without the help of all the great people who've contributed to the stories. So thank you for creating a place where we can all come together and share.
Last edited by TheSlakey (2009 January 08, 9:56 am)
Congratulations to all the recent finishers 
Hey guys. First post here, and I'm posting to say that I just finished RTK1
I began on 8/13/08, so it took me 5 months to the day. I kinda took it slow, learning 20-25 new kanji per day most of the time (except a few days here and there where I was lazy).
As you all know, it was a lot of work, but I'm absolutely thrilled to be finished. When I was getting started, I quickly saw merit in the system, and kinda got an impression of "I think I could do this". Although, I almost expected to hit a wall at some point, where it'd get ridiculously hard to continue, and I'd give up. But it never happened. There were a couple times were it got rather difficult (like when I had a huge backlog of review cards to get through on Anki, and I was forgetting way too many of them), but I pushed on, and things got easier again.
Big thanks to all who've contributed stories. I couldn't have done it without you
And actually, I also am planning on doing a lot of sentence mining from Totoro. I found a japanese script, but it's really lite on kanji. If anyone has a better one, I'd love to hear from you.
http://user.chollian.net/~akizuki/siryo%5E/totoro.htm
Finished. Phase 1 of AJATT done, kana is already done, I'm already in sentence
I actually went 50 kanji per day the first month, which boosted me to 1000 kanji really fast. Then exams and assignments from school just killed all time I had XP. I was going as slow as 10 kanji per day in average for the next 2 and a half month (sometimes 5 per day), and almost never finished my reviews (anki). I finished 4 hours before new year
I decided to add new kanji from RTK3 when I encounter them only. So far I have an average of 1 new kanji per 30 sentences XP (@75 currently)
I contributed some of my best stories to this site and some of them got starred 
I have learned at the end of my RTK journey that not finishing my reviews isn't a bad thing. In fact, it is encouraged, if there's too much to do for the day, to not burn yourself up reviewing everything. Something that everyone who still haven't finished should learn carefully. And something I should've done earlier T_T.
Well then, I still use this site for RTK3 stories, but this is my first and last post here. See you guys!
Finished! I started I believe in November and just finished today. It feels so nice to finally have them all behind me, and I've already started on RTK3. Although I'm gonna go a bit slower with that one, so I have enough time to firmly implant the first ones in my head
Dustin_Calgary wrote:
Just finished adding my last Kanji this morning, what a great feeling.
I'd like to thank the great primitives I came across on this site, was good for making some memorable stories to some otherwise boring groups!!
I did about 400 kanji over a long weekend and didn't take much in the way of breaks.
Now to keep on the reviews, and decide what book is next for me to destroy ^^
Excellent, been watching your progress on twitter you really blitzed them
Yeah, your finish was impressive!
I just managed to finish RTK1 as well. Started in May 2008 using the German version ("Die Kanji lernen und behalten") by Robert Rauther, who did an excellent job. I have been using Anki for the actual work, which has proven to be an insanely useful program that I am going to use for the course of my further studies. With the notable exception of the last week, I didn't exactly blitz my way through RTK1. Not if you have a job to do and a SO who would like to have some attention now and then. 
Not sure if I'm going to start RTK2&3 yet. There is a German version of RTK2 sitting on my desk. Unfortunately, there is no German RTK3, which is why I have the English version. But I have to admit that I am not sure at all if I should continue with systematic kanji studies or pick them up on the way. My only regret is that I haven't discovered RTK earlier.
I would like to thank you guys for the excellent story ideas that were very helpful. ファブリス, thanks for this site!
siljeal wrote:
I just managed to finish RTK1 as well. Started in May 2008 using the German version ("Die Kanji lernen und behalten") by Robert Rauther, who did an excellent job. I have been using Anki for the actual work, which has proven to be an insanely useful program that I am going to use for the course of my further studies. With the notable exception of the last week, I didn't exactly blitz my way through RTK1. Not if you have a job to do and a SO who would like to have some attention now and then.
Not sure if I'm going to start RTK2&3 yet. There is a German version of RTK2 sitting on my desk. Unfortunately, there is no German RTK3, which is why I have the English version. But I have to admit that I am not sure at all if I should continue with systematic kanji studies or pick them up on the way. My only regret is that I haven't discovered RTK earlier.
I would like to thank you guys for the excellent story ideas that were very helpful. ファブリス, thanks for this site!
Congratulations, personally i would pick them up along the way as with the ones from the first book you have a solid foundation to build on and techniques to learn the rest as and when you see them.