Just passed the halfway point, too.    It took me just about 2 months including a 2 week lapse of not studying, and another 2 weeks of super slow progress before I found this site.  Thanks for all the help, everyone!  It feels awesome to finally start to "get" kanji, if that makes sense.  I'm hoping to keep up my accelerated pace and finish in 2 weeks.  頑張ります！　　No time to waste with the next 2kyuu test in 3 months!  Only 10 points away and kanji WAS my weak point. 

Keep up the good work everyone!

finethankyou & ryuusei86, omedetou!

HA!  Just got to 1026, and it's taken me one, tedious-put-everything-else-on-hold month.  Every free moment I got was spent doing this.  No TV at night, no shows - period, no social calls to friends (I wonder if they'll still be there when I'm done?)...  @_@  But I'm on schedule. I should be done by the end of April. 

I've been making manual flashcards - you know, the tangible kind that you flip through with your actual HANDS.  @_@  So time-consuming, but I'm a mom (is anyone else out there trying to do this with kids??).  I can't sit at the computer all day.  But I can study my kanji while my older kids are studying homework, and I can read RTK and visualize while chillin' with my babies as they play with their toys.

But I'm having some serious hell-yeah moments. 

Can I tell you how COOL it is to start recognizing all these Chinese symbols on items I have around the house?  The sign for East is on my can of Chow Mein, and my rice bag had a seven-kanji description on it and I knew five - oh yes, FIVE of them - and they made sense.  Ha!

Woo - hoo!  I'll review for the next two days, and then tackle another 250 or so, and it's downhill from there.

ryuusei86 - I know what you mean about person.  I just imagined my brother-in-law in 76 different awkward, humiliating, and demeaning stories.  lol.  If he ever sees the flashcards I've written up, he'll be all, 'wtf?"

finethankyou - you and I are running at about the same pace.  I hope to see us both posting the 'congratulate me' thread by May!  Giddyup!

Last edited by Thunk (2009 March 29, 10:48 pm)

HALF WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow I feel like I broke through a wall yesterday.  It took me almost 4 weeks to go from 950 to 1000.  But today I've already done 21 and am on a roll.  Hopefully I'll be posting in the 3/4 thread soon.  I'll be exiting this one and going there for further motivation
Congrats all who came before and all who will come after!  Woo kanji!

Congratulations denus!  You'll be posting in the 3/4 done topic before you know it   

Last edited by Harrow (2009 April 05, 8:21 pm)

ooh yea me too 1000 babies in the pockets. i absolutely love this book. and this site. and japan.

Looks like the class of April 08 is going to be a  big one, too, with all these people piling into half way and setting ambitious goals for kicking those last 1000 into line pronto

Well, I hoped to be closer to the 3/4 thread by now, but here's confessing that I have yet to cross the 1100 line.  With work and other things, I've barely managed to add another 50-60 kanji since my last post.  On the bright side, I haven't missed a day of reviews yet, not even once, and not even when I was out of town for 10 days.  This has really whittled down those earlier piles.  So I don't feel it's wasted time.

Frankly, with the end of the semester coming hard and fast, I'd be glad to get to the 3/4 point by the end of May and to have all RTK1 kanji entered into the system by the end of the (Northern hemisphere) summer.  At the 3/4 point I'll probably consider whether to buy RTK2 and/or RTK3.

And I realize it isn't a race, so let me congratulate the upcoming class of April/May, and I'll catch up to you eventually. 

I'm a bit over half way right now. Have been feeling tired since around 600 but as I started approaching the half way point I got a boost in energy from somewhere. Now I'm back to feeling tired again, but I'm already used to ploughing along regardless of how little energy I have...

Ahh, I was hoping I might be able to catch up a bit more as I fell behind, but I had one of those 'meh' moods for a few days, but then I got it together again and now 1026 is in the first box as last.... Now I'm counting down, it hasn't quite sunk in yet but I am relieved I have had the willpower to reach this far. I am too far forward to stop here.

See you at 3/4.

Checking in. Currently on 1026.

Just added and reviewed up to #1026. Technically I'm not quite half-way because I still have quite a few in the first three boxes. But, even so, it feels good to have reached the second half. I had the most difficulty with the garment-related section, partly because it's the first really long chapter and partly because I rushed through it without taking time to memorize the different primitives.