I just passed lesson 40.
Hardest lesson so far.

456 kanji to go!

Last edited by iSoron (2008 July 28, 4:28 am)

I agree with alyks - all of these should be sticky.  It's encouraging to set these signposts to mark your progress.  (And speaking of, congratulations to alyks, iSoron, and aboros for making it this far.)

Woot 1553 today..but damn is it me or the words getting harder.  I often find myself looking up the meaning of the word on google just to make sure lol, maybe i just suck lol.  It has been 4 months so far...the path is getting rough as hell though.

Well, I breezed right by this milestone - added 1681 today. A few weeks ago, I had been really looking forward to 3/4, but I had a long break (skipped reviews on weekends, no new kanji) a couple chapters before I got there, so I didn't feel all that good about it when I finally did pass it, so I just kept going. Now I'm back in the kanji swing of things and ready to finish!

Good luck to everyone - if you can make it here, you can make it to the end.

iSoron wrote:

I often find myself looking up the meaning of the word on google just to make sure

Don't look up the english keyword. Look up the kanji at a Japanese dictionary. Sometimes there are easier or more accurate keywords you can use.

Bad idea. Heisig uses the keywords for the story building and not having the same keyword for several kanji. The actual meaning of the kanji is sort of irrelevant since most kanji have several meanings which differ a lot.

Tobberoth wrote:

iSoron wrote:

I often find myself looking up the meaning of the word on google just to make sure

Don't look up the english keyword. Look up the kanji at a Japanese dictionary. Sometimes there are easier or more accurate keywords you can use.

Bad idea. Heisig uses the keywords for the story building and not having the same keyword for several kanji. The actual meaning of the kanji is sort of irrelevant since most kanji have several meanings which differ a lot.

I've occasionally done this for disambiguition purposes, but retained the original keyword and put the definition I found (even if that, too, consisted of nothing but a keyword) in parentheses.

Last edited by hknamida (2008 September 26, 10:17 am)

Finally finished 1530!!! 

I am relieved, but also exhausted at the same time. 

The last few days have been really tough, as the number of review characters are forcing me to spend hours on the reviews alone.  So much that I could not add the characters for Chapter 39 for two days.

Right now, my 1-4 decks are:  146, 506, 757, and 121, and I'm getting ~150 characters to review each day.

I think I will have to slow down my pace or take a few days off from adding characters so I can push the reviewed cards to the right a little.

I hope I don't burnout before the last set...  ...any special recommendations for those last 500 or so?  Thx in advance.

Last edited by kfmfe04 (2008 October 01, 6:00 am)

On 1578 right now, and I'm blazing through the rest of the book. I have quite a bit of free time, so I've been doing 120 a day (with 90% recall rate the next day). I should be finished in a few days at this rate.

Reviews are seriously going to bite me in the arse though!

For anybody who cares, this is what my review stacks look like:

failed: 20 1)303 2)86 3)299 4)870

i have arrived at frame 1531 !

1541 and just a few days shy of three months.  I recently got another spurge of motivation and now that I'm so close I can feel it and am trying to bang out 50+ per day until the end.   The biggest key to this is that I finally realized I could go and change the time zone settings for reviews.  I work until 12am at night and it was killing me having to wait until I got home to start on my reviews when I have tons of free time at work that I could be doing them.  It's almost like getting an "extra" hour in my day now lol.

Just reached 1550 last night and can almost see the end in sight, I've been doing these for about 4 months now with some brakes in between but now I'm getting closer I'm going to stick to it and not keep stopping it was the worst thing I could do as its surprising the amount I forget in such a short space of time skipping through reviews instead of actually taking my time with them.

Although my reviews are getting bigger as I'm failing ones I thought I new because of the rushing them earlier in the month hopefully now I'm back into the swing of things they will start to get smaller again.

Blasted through 1531 a couple of days ago, on my 9 day kanji getaway. Now up around 1690. Hope to be around 1850/1900 by the end of sunday, and then have finished altogether by the end of next week. Well, at least have all of the kanji in _a_ stack, even if it's not in stack 4...

Bumpity for taking 4.5 months to get to 3/4 of the way through.

Hopefully I can finish the whole thing by New Year's.