Congrats hatsuyuki15! I'm almost 3/4 of the way through at this point. When you hit the halfway mark, you might find things easier and harder at the same time. Easier because you understand the method, but more difficult because your reviews will increase, there will be some synonyms you get confused (I suggest putting a hint in the card if you can so you know which kanji you are actually reviewing), and you'll have over 1000 characters in your head that you have to sort through instead of just 500.

Keep up the pace! You'll be done in no time. Don't do what I did and miss a few days of reviews and end up with 700 of them. It took me a while to get back to adding new cards. :-). I wanted to finish on Christmas day and that did not end up happening :-(.

Gratz Potbelly! I just hit 650, and I have to say, the 400 - 800 stretch is probably the hardest. I looked at the lesson kanji spread, and almost all of the lessons with 50+ kanji are in this stretch, and to top it off there's even a lesson with more than a 100 symbols in it. After I finished the 80 symbol one I stopped learning new kanji for 4 days, which I feel was a mistake, I could've advanced so much.

I feel like everything'll be a walk in the park after I master lesson 25.

Please can someone help me with some info. I've been using RTK1 I used to come here to revise my kanji, get help to make up stories, save etc. I've been very busy, so I haven't been here in a while. Now I've returned and I'm completely lost, can't even find the study tab. Have there been some changes? Thank you for your help

500 WOO!

Who's bright idea was it to put 90 kanjis in this lesson?

(going slower than expected, but at a satisfactory pace nonetheless. One month&one week, considering the fact that it's exam season and RTK is low on my priority list).

congrats!

Hello all, I'm new here and so glad I found the forum! I've been working through the book at 20/day and hit the 500 mark a few days ago.

I miss starting out where I only had a few reviews to do everyday and could just focus on learning the new Kanji.

I took some of your advice about being more strict w/ failing cards. Seems to actually be helping me a lot. I don't want to get half-way through and realize I only know half of what I learned!

Just hit 500!

I did RTK a few years ago and made it to about 600, so this is me getting caught back up to where I was before.  Only 100 left...

I've found that doing little chunks throughout the day is the best.  Have RTK with you on the go and do a few frames here and there throughout the day.  I'll also do things like... do 10 frames before I go to the gym, then after I get back, do another 10 frames before going on to something else. 

Spreading it out this way I've been able to do about 40-70 per day.  I don't make that a minimum though... if I only feel like doing 10 on one day, that's all I do.  Just find your motivation and keep it strong, but don't set rules for yourself.  As soon as you look at it as a "chore" or "i have to get my minimum in," that's when your motivation gets killed and this stops being fun.

I also hit the 500 mark recently and as of today I'm at 580 WOOT, but there's still a ways to go and i'm even more motivated to do more. Especially since I'm on Easter break i want to do as much as i can before school starts again. With every kanji i learn i just feel that one step closer to Kanji Bliss, it's soo vivid i could almost smell it "tearful sigh". My personal goal is to finish in 3 months and as today i still have 2 months 2 weeks and 23 hours. >< yes i keep count

Merocor wrote:

Just passed the 500 mark!  And only after my third try at RTK.....Woohoo!!

Wow, what a coincidence! I hit 500 today as well.  I also attempted RtK 3 times before this.

I've been studying steadily at 25 new characters per day, using the RtK SRS instead of Anki. I don't know why but the last two times I attempted RtK, once I started using Anki I just got...overwhelmed.  There was one day a week ago in which I didn't want to study or review, but I turned on my Inspirational Youtube playlist, and powered through it within about an hour (reviews and new cards).  I felt so good afterwards because I had studied instead of giving up.  It was an awesome feeling ^_^.  Today is my 20th consecutive day of study with no skipped days since I began, and I'm really happy with where I am

ROOOAAAARRRRRRRR!! Just blasted through part 2; starting part 3 tomorrow. Gonna be hell in three days though, when all these reviews start piling up... Haha.

And I probably shouldn't forget this while mentioning my 1021 kanji; on to the 1500-something kanji now!

Last edited by EWLameijer (2012 April 28, 3:00 pm)

Well done kusai You'll be posting in the half way thread in no time at that rate! I'm nearly at 3/4 and from what I can tell; after that last push just before halfway, it's all downhill. I'm actually having to convince myself NOT to learn too much at once, not that it's working... (those reviews will the death of me )