Holy snapple!  I mean....awww shiiyyaattt!!!  Is that the sun?  It's been so long.  It's....so...きれい...

W00t!! I can't believe I'm done! I can't wait to get on to sentence mining. I'm tired of telling people I'm working on my Japanese and not having any improvement to show for it conversationally.

But it's an amazing feeling of literacy. I can go pages in a manga without missing a kanji and my handwriting has improved a million times! People now say "it's good... for a boy" instead of "it's good... for a westerner" !!!

Thanks for all the stories everyone! And especially thanks to Misters Denis and Heisig!

benguet23 wrote:

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You came to the right forum, but you came to the wrong section.  Try posting a thread in the general discussion section and some people might give you a few pointers. One thing you gotta learn is that you can't just post a phone number and expect people to call and help you. You have to come to the source itself. Even then, we're mostly self-directed people so some of us might give you tips while some of us will just tell you to go read 'Remembering the Kanji'.

Last edited by KaitouJS (2009 July 28, 12:38 am)

Congratulations kuraujiokun! Good luck with your sentences

After four months I'm finally finished, damn it feels good.  Whenever I saw any Japanese I went straight for the katakana hoping to understand something.  Now I go straight for the kanji, it's amazing what this method does for you.  Thank you Heisig and thank you everyone for your stories that helped me through many kanji!!  Now for a little break...besides reviewing of course.

I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me

I had planned to finish tomorrow, but changed my mind, woke up at 7, and did the last 216 today.  did a big final review and got 86% recall wooooo.  reviews are gonna hit hard tomorrow i bet though haha

Great thanks to everybody for their wonderful stories ! Time to relax & prepare for RTK2

Finished after 3,7 months and an average of 18,5 cards per day \o/
Aaaah, I can't wait to study real japanese now
Thank's for your wonderful stories, I used about 50 or 60% of them , and made the rest on my own, even decided to share the ones I thought to be good enough to help someone .
Also, as english is not my native language I translated all the keywords to portuguese , and it wasn't easy, some of the keywords were really tricky, so I had to do a lot of research
The only thing I regret is not having used spiderman as a primitive for thread, it was probably the hardest primitive for me...

Last edited by Asakk (2009 August 02, 12:25 pm)

Holy s*** I'm done. Well, I've worked through the last RtKVol1 Kanji. Now I need to SRS them for a while to make them solid... but no more new Kanji for a little while! YAY. Feels like I just ran a marathon or something. DAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMNNNNNNNNNN.

I often wonder what I would be doing right now if I hadn't stumbled upon AJATT and consequently, this site.
I feel so relieved now that I've done my reviews of the last 3 lessons, even if I still have a while before all the kanji are deeply rooted into my skull.
But now it's time for the next course of action. ：D

I paused RTK a few months ago to start some sentence-mining, got sidetracked by that...but finished RTK1 today.

Thanks to everyone whose stories I used! I especially appreciate those new primitives, I can't imagine going through the book with "person" and "fingers"

You lucky bastards. T_T

I'll get here one day.