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MusicalShape New member

From: America Registered: 2011-12-25 Posts: 6

Hello! I'm a newcomer to this site; I decided to join after I realized what a help this community will be to my RtK learning experience.

I have 2 questions about the flashcard system. First, I haven't used SRS before to facilitate my Kanji learning, and I'm almost to 500 kanji. Is it better to dump them on all at once, or add one lesson per day?

Second, how are the kanji numbered? I have Heisig's 6th edition with 2200 kanji, and I was wondering if the flash card system matched my edition, or the edition with 2042. (Not sure which addition is "better"; I just got the newer one because the price was cheaper on Amazon).

Thanks for your time!

Betelgeuzah Member

From: finland Registered: 2011-03-26 Posts: 464

Hello. I recommend you to download the Anki program (google). It is a free SRS software with various pre-made decks for all kinds of purposes such as RtK, grammar or vocab learning. I think that the program on this site is in sync with the previous edition of RtK so that will give you some trouble. However, Anki might already have a premade deck with the new kanji order.

I recommend not to dump all the kanji at once. You will face a ton of reviews for many days until your due card amount allows you to add more. For me, it takes around an hour to review 150~180 cards, just to give you an example. You should add as many as you feel comfortable with, but to keep in mind the cards will pile up fast if you're not careful.

EratiK Member

From: Paris Registered: 2010-07-15 Posts: 874

Hello!

About the first question, it depends: if you dump them all at once, the range of which kanji you can be tested on will be greater than if you add lesson by lesson. If you think you're up to it then do it. (I also like this site's algorithm better.)

About the second question, check out this thread:
http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?id=8470&p=3
In short it matches the old editions numbers, but there's a table of conversion for the 6th edition there (since the new numbers are kanji that can be found in RTK3 or in RTK1 supplement).
Good luck on the kanji way.

Last edited by EratiK (2011 December 26, 2:53 am)

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MusicalShape New member

From: America Registered: 2011-12-25 Posts: 6

Okay, thanks for the replies! I think I'll just use this site, as Anki seems a bit too rigorous for my purposes. I would like to review at my leisure, and it seems the card stack method will work well for that.

Eratik, thanks for the conversion table! That was extremely helpful!

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