Yeah! Just finished lesson 27, after 3 weeks of studying. The hardest part was deciding on who to choose for 人.
Many thanks to people contributing the stories here, it helped me with a lot of difficult kanji

Hey, just reached the halfway point.  Thanks to all for their good stories, many of which i poached. 
I figured i would do 500 kanji a month, and finish in 4 months, but it looks like I'm slower than that, averaging about 350-400 a month, maybe 20 a day on weekdays only, and big reviews at 600, 750-ish, 950-ish.  If I'm lucky I'll finish sometime at the end of January.  That's fine with me.
BTW Fabrice, your site rocks!

Just finished lesson 27. Thanks for all the stories! (I would use the Mr T stories but I have no idea who he is.)

Anyone else feels that the keywords get harder as the book progresses?

For which primitives do you use Mr T, Data and Spiderman?

Spiderman was used for thread

zodiac wrote:

Oh, and I did do a google search for Mr T but realised I didn't recognized him, so no chance to use him as a primitive

Good. You shouldn't identify a radical with someone just because many people here did it, that's not the point. The point is to use something YOU have a strong connection to, so you can remember the story better. I used Data for state of mind since I love Star Trek, but I didn't use Mr T for person since I don't like him. I used my character in WoW. As for thread, I stick with the meaning of thread unless it's much easier to make a story with spider-man (which it often is).

On my third attempt at completing RTK I have, for the first time reached the half-way mark. I put this down to 3 factors:

1. I'm on a four month holiday so I have plenty of free time to devote.
2. I'm not in Japan this time - While I was in Japan I felt devoting time to learning the Kanji was a waste of time when I could be learning conversation skills which I used daily.
3. This site. The stories that everyone has contributed are such a great resource and make the process both easier and more enjoyable.

I hope the stories I have contributed may similarly help other down the line.

Thanks again to everyone and I'll see you all on the other side!

Last edited by cheesy_dave (2008 December 03, 11:47 pm)

Finally hit the half way point, yay! Feels like it's taken forever, but that might be because I started a while ago, stopped, then restarted again recently. Time to power through the second half.

Did Lessons 28, 29, 30 today. Putting me just past halfway. I can honestly say it would not have been possible without Reviewing the Kanji, not to mention RtK for that matter.

So far, so good. Gonna power through the rest of the book. 100 a day. However, with my brother coming to town tomorrow, the holidays, and New Years parties, I hope I can keep my pace strong. I decided yesterday to go for all 3007.

WOOHOO  Hit Frame #1026 end of Lesson #27

Good Milestone for me, great to post in here.
Would have been here 2 weeks earlier if it weren't for me getting horribly ill, AND moving my Family to a different city at the same time ( 1 of those weeks I had close to no sleep, was very bad )

All excuses aside, I am half way and while I still have some time off I am trying to power through as many frames as I can keep up with on the SRS

Thanks everyone!

Crap, didn't realize there was a thread for this.  Well, anyways, I passed the halfway mark this past week.  I'm at like 1273 now.  I want to finish by the end of January.

Reached #1026, end of Lesson #27! I started at the end of August 2008. I hope to finish the remaining kanji soon

Last edited by Marta (2009 January 26, 9:10 am)

Just finished learning 1026 (did over 100 today, so tired). But everything's in the green

Did exactly 28 days over it .