Almost half way through RTK1 feels nice but I won't be satisfied until I close the book on RTK 3 and double check to make sure I at least have all the JOYO Kanji, including the new ones, in my arsenal. It's not far away especially when I compare myself to people that aren't doing Heisig ( which I suggest you do whenever you're feeling a little down ) I'm constantly asked about Kanji because some of my classmates know what I'm up to and as time goes on I get more and more of the meanings correct when asked.
I stop my deck on recognition of Kanji a little while ago say 400 Kanji ago. I don't recommend it actually. It just so happened that my two decks started to line up with reviews and new cards so that I would fail a new card in my recognition deck and next day get the keyword in my main deck. So automatically I would know how to write it because I just "learned" it the day before.
I have a calender with smiley faces and black squares. The Smiley faces represent "Good days" where I reached my minimum. and black squares are days I didn't "Bad days" so far I have 5 "Bad days" on some of them I did maybe 10 cards but not my required minimum so it wasn't a good day. I'm still hoping to finish up by April 1st but April 14th seems more and more likely everyday. Only way I can deal with extra cards is on the weekend and I have been pretty lazy on the weekends. Spring Break is coming up starting March 12th, So maybe I'll pull a power week to jumpstart myself to the 1700-1800 range by March 21st. Which would put me on track for an April 1st finish. Theorizing dates is fun and motivating but whats still important is just being consistent.
It takes more time to input stories into Anki than I thought and that is what is taking the most time. I think I review each individual card for too long as well sometimes up to 45-60 seconds. I have stories inputed up to card 1003 which means i still have another 1039 to go lol. I will get there soon enough and it will all be worth it.
Some advice from my experience.. see what you can do to reduce the time it takes you to input new cards. I used to type up my a story for each kanji (or copy one from koohii), but I found that it was not an effective use of time. For the good kanji I'd only look at it once, and for ones I failed I usually took that as a sign to come up with a new story anyways. I do stories only in my head now.
ReplyDeleteIf inputting stories is taking the most time, maybe that's what you can drop. 45-60 seconds for review also seems a little long, but everyone's experience is different.
がんばれ!
-mafried from koohii
Yeah I'm trying to cut the reviews to 20 seconds if I don't know it by that point I need to review it. The stories I have to push through regardless as sometimes at school I don't have internet access. Thanks for stopping by I was happy to get my first comment haha.
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