700 in 3 days?

Congratulations. Must have been very intense...

Last edited by zodiac (2009 September 09, 11:53 pm)

I just finished it! 巳!!! ROARRR!!!
I remember having started it in April's 25th, but I was at a really slow pace, I restarted twice since then, becaume my internet is so slow, I couldn't review properly. And then I got Anki. Anki changed it all. I have Anki since July 16, 2009, that was the last time I restarted. I just realized, since then, it took me less than 2 months to finish it.

Now off to reviews and grammar! And college that starts in less than 2 weeks (mandarin majo and japanese minor)!

I don't know why, but I don't feel happy. I feel normal. I made a big grin when I finished it, but now I'm normal. Weird.

Thanks you so much to all of you, the ones who created the stories and the ones who post wonderful advices on this forum. Thanks Heisig!

Last edited by CarolinaCG (2009 September 10, 8:47 am)

I wanted to post in this thread for a LONG TIME!!

Aaaaaaaand here I am!!!! Just finished RTK1, the first and hardest step in the Japanese literacy and fluency journey 　

I've started in August 2008, but stopped twice for a long time, finished more than the half of it in the past month!

Thanks to God, and to everybody here for the stories and the HUGE support.

I can't wait to finish Tae Kim's and start Smart.fm, someday I'm gonna reach a native-like level in Japanese, wait and see ＾＿＾ 巳。

Last edited by undead_saif (2009 September 13, 5:32 pm)

Well add one to the count, cause I've had the pleasure of adding my last kanji today

It really feels like it was just a few days ago that I started. My copy of RTK arrived somewhere in the first week of July, just a day or two before my short but intense intern started.
Working full time plus a lot of travel time effectively took around 12 hours each day, and staying over at my brothers house for the time being didn't really helped my study environment either.

Anyways, that lasted till half of august, after which I had learned the first 500 kanji. I know had a small summer vacation lasting 4 weeks, so I did some calculations, figured I needed to learn 50 kanji a day to get done in time, and here I am

Its nice that I have the kanji wall out of the way, and it feels great to start the new year - ready to begin actually learning Japanese stuff!

Let it be said that I have now entered 2042 into the review cycle, and now time to nail the reviews down on the head.

Thanks to everyone who put up their awesome stories. They really are the reason that makes this site such a perfect method to slog through the book and re-inspire my seemingly dead imagination.

Here's to the next step on the journey towards whatever ambitions we all hold. All it takes is the dedication to act, and not to blindly allow the world to pass by.

Here we go!

Phew! Finally done. It took me about 2.5 months, and it was well worth it, but boy am I glad I made through all 2042. Now I can finally plow ahead into more grammar/Smart.fm. It feels like the biggest prep work is over and I can finally get to expanding my Japanese base.

A big thanks to everyone who contributed to this site. It was a huge help. There's still a ton of reviews to do, but I think I'll be alright now. Thanks a bunch.

YESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!

Oh man, I'm feeling ecstatic.  I added 35 Kanji each day, no breaks, and now I'm here.  I'm doing AJATT, so now I'm on to bigger things.  Thanks so much for your stories and encouragement everyone.  Hopefully I'll see you in Shibuya some day...

undead_saif wrote:

Thanks to God, and to everybody here for the stories and the HUGE support.

Now why did you have to go and bring the supernatural into it?

this long nightmare is finally over

futnuh wrote:

undead_saif wrote:

Thanks to God, and to everybody here for the stories and the HUGE support.

Now why did you have to go and bring the supernatural into it?

Don't wanna start any kind of argument here, but I want to take that as a question and answer it.
Because everything is thanks to him!
For example (just one) if he didn't give me eyes, time or even my life to do it , I wouldn't have done it, so Thank God I did it

And congratulations to everybody who did it and encouragement for those who are doing it, it REALLY pays off

Last edited by undead_saif (2009 September 26, 7:39 am)

I think it's time for another religion war!

Ok it's 8.09pm on a Saturday night, and I've just finished RtK1!! Thanks to everyone, couldn't haven't done it without Heisigs book and everyone's stories (Out of the 2042 I probably made around 30 of my own). Honestly what a feeling to get to the end, LOVED all the comments on sign of of the snake!!

Now quick retrospective (hopefully helpful to newbs):

According to the study section I added my first story on April 10th - so 5 months 16 days. Could have finished earlier but I was really slow and lazy about adding new kanji, especially when things got tougher. Heisig really runs out of ideas for keywords/primitives in the last 1/4, and there are some real obvious errors.

Still critisms aside, RtK is an amazingly efficient and simple process. Really the only battle was with motivation - you seriously have to keep up daily reviews and pushing on adding new stories.
I know I won't fully have finished until all cards are in box 5, but screw it; tomorrow I'm going to test the cards I added today and then start on KO2001.

Right, I'm off out to celebrate.

Last edited by aphasiac (2009 September 26, 2:19 pm)

I finally finished RTK1 for the second time after I stopped reviewing last year.
The good thing is it was a lot easier second time, and I already have 1800 in my "Four+ reviews" pile.