hotaru114
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From: Lund Sweden
Registered: 2011-10-13
Posts: 8
Hello, I would like to ask for your advice.
Before beginning Japanese studies at the university I studied for myself for some time, among other things using RTK. I got to about 300 or so but when the semester started it was difficult to continue (or so I thought at the time). As you suspect we had to learn a lot "the hard way".（汗）(Actually, to my surprise, our teacher recommended Heisig's book -- if I understand correctly not many do that?)
Since I know most of the kanji for this semester as well, I was thinking that I have enough time to continue with RTK. Anyways, the question is, how do I start again? Do I start over and repeat all the kanji stories, or do I pick it up from where I left it, and simply start reviewing old kanji?
What would you have done?
(When I think about it, if I had stuck with Heisig's book from the start I probably would have known all the course's kanji by now anyway...（皮肉笑）)
NinkuEx
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From: Fukuoka, Japan
Registered: 2008-08-10
Posts: 5
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I can relate to that i guess, i was studying via RTK method. I got around to 500, then i had to stop because the reviews became overwhelming and was overloaded with school work too.
Eventually i restarted, finished RTK. Then completely stopped again.
I decided to pick it up again via Lazy Kanji Method, there's a anki deck available for it. I also stopped worrying about getting overloaded with reviews. I just stick with a pattern, study 30 kanjis and review 50 a day. From past experience, i had learned that if i do too much reviewing, i get tired and don't feel like studying. Another thing i do is time box, i study 10 - 30 mins, then take a break. After my break is over, I continue where i left off.
so yeah, Take it slow and easy.
がんばれ!
slimmjim
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From: Southern California
Registered: 2009-02-10
Posts: 29
I'm in the same situation, except I had gotten to about 600, and it was about 2 years since I stopped studying or using Anki. When I decided to come back to studying, I stupidly erased my progress on Anki, thinking that I needed to start over from scratch.
That really misses the whole point of an SRS and now I realize I shouldn't have done that, but too late now. I'm back up to frame 150-ish right now. I don't think it will take long to get back up to where I was. I can't believe it, but I recall a lot of them immediately, and most others I just need to refresh myself for a second and they come back.
. So slowly chip away at your stack and everything will alright.
