Just follow the book for the first 12 chapters.
After that use kanji.koohii.com to review your
flashcards and add stories.

The idea with this approach is that you should NOT have to write them out over and over again until you memorize them by brute force It's great if you write them out as you review them though!

Use either Anki or this site's reviewing system (personally I suggest Anki, especially if you're gonna use it for learning other parts of the Japanese language since it's comfortable to have that and your kanji deck in the same place). You can either use prepared RTK decks that are downloadable through the program or you can make your own deck from scratch.
http://ankisrs.net/docs/manual.html
http://ankisrs.net/docs/AddItems.html

Oh and I forgot to add one more thing (you just reminded me of it, TwoMoreCharacters).

Should I still bother to go over the basic kanji that I already know? (like numbers, or other kanji) ^_^

So is Anki like a flashcard system? I put in the stuff I learn from Heisig and use it to review?

GottaLearnThemAll wrote:

So is Anki like a flashcard system? I put in the stuff I learn from Heisig and use it to review?

Yes, but the point is that it's a Spaced Repetition System (SRS) that spaces out the reviews by assigning each card with an interval that's based on how you score the card as you review. For each review of a card you select Soon if you failed to pass it (which resets the card's interval and has it show up soon again until you do pass it) or you select any of the three hard, easy or very easy depending on how difficult it was. Those three options will give the card different intervals for when it appears next, and as you repeatedly pass a card, the intervals become larger.

This means that all your reviews are scheduled and you don't have to manage when and what you should review, unlike a basic flashcard or quiz system (quite useful when you've got over 2000 cards in your deck).

Last edited by TwoMoreCharacters (2012 January 05, 3:05 pm)