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| fortheo Senior Member United States Joined 4818 days ago 187 posts - 222 votes  Studies: French | Message 177 of 1702 19 December 2011 at 11:44am | IP Logged |
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I was referring to Heisigs method. The fact that you did 220 in one weekend has motivated me even more than before :)
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| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6402 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 178 of 1702 19 December 2011 at 11:44am | IP Logged |
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RTK is usually an abbreviation for Heisig's Remembering the Kanji.
I use this book too, and am almost finished with it (for the second time, I went too fast the first time). I would just warn you, that although it is easy to learn the first thousand very quickly, it gets harder. Most people find the last 500 or so to be very difficult. There are a lot of similar key words, plus those kanji just seem harder somehow. There might also be the kanji/Heisig-burnout. One does get a little tired. Anyway, you shouldn't worry if it takes you longer than you'd like. Take the time you need to make good stories, even if you can't go as fast as you want. Heisig is great though. You really do learn all those kanji, fairly easily. Right now, I am listening-reading to Harry Potter in Japanese. I find that I often understand the Japanese, much more easily than I expected, even the first time through a chapter. A lot of that is thanks to Heisig. When I see the kanji, I have a pretty good idea what it means, and since I hear it on the audiobook at the same time, I am also learning to pronounce them. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4966 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 179 of 1702 19 December 2011 at 5:34pm | IP Logged |
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I'm glad it inspired. I have 229 cards due in my heisig deck though. This is definitely going to involve a few
hours every day to get through. I wold say that the first 200 or so kanji seem easier than the ones I'm doing now although I'm hoping that's in part because I've been studying them longer. Like that he gives you a story to use for the kanji but I'm often making up my own silly and shorter stories myself. Mine are more visual. He days to keep it as concrete as possible and yet his stories are pretty abstract. He's obviously a scholar though so I think abstract can work well for him. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6402 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 180 of 1702 19 December 2011 at 10:41pm | IP Logged |
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I use this site for reviewing. It's basically an SRS, but you don't have to make the cards yourself. Also, people share stories there, so you can look at them if you don't have any ideas yourself.
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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4966 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 181 of 1702 21 December 2011 at 12:27am | IP Logged |
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392 cards to review today. I didn't get through what I wanted yesterday as I was busy and it went and
doubled on me. Gonna take a nap and see he it goes. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| fortheo Senior Member United States Joined 4818 days ago 187 posts - 222 votes Studies: French | Message 182 of 1702 22 December 2011 at 5:50am | IP Logged |
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Good luck!!
I am in the same boat as you, reviews are killer. I think I spend more time reviewing than I do learning new kanji :/ Just got to keep going to the end though, eventually the reviews will go down. (however they will go up a lot, before they go down lol ) Don’t get too worked up or frustrated with RTK. Just do what you can, understand that it’s a long term goal, and you will be alright. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4966 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 183 of 1702 22 December 2011 at 6:30pm | IP Logged |
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Yeah I haven't completed the reviews the past couple days although I'm putting lots of time in. I guess I have
more of a life than I gave myself credit for. But I'm learning lots of kanji which is the main thing and that's very exciting. I feel a lot better about Japanese now that I'm making heisig the priority. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5610 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French | Message 184 of 1702 22 December 2011 at 7:09pm | IP Logged |
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You're making me want to crack open my copy of RTK again! I ended up getting bogged down under all the reviews
last time and quit around #850 or something. But even getting that far has made learning new kanji much easier for me. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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