in my little experience with the method is best to uses something like kohii and put your own keywords in your own native lenguage because if you try to do it in english you have two jobs remember the key word in english and in your own native lenguage specially if it is a weird word.
I used koohii quite a bit for story ideas! As for doing it in your native language, it depends. I'm fine with doing everything in English so it doesn't bother me. But yeah if English isn't a comfortable language for you, it's better to do it in your NL!
I’m a really quick memorizer and I was very motivated to get over memorizing the kanji quickly. I was ramping up starting on the first day with 100 kanji, the second day I got 200 more kanji, and on the third day I woke up and realized that the trial pdf available for free stops after only 300 kanji. I went to get the book, but i had to order it because they didn’t have It in store at BnN. By the time it arrive I lost the motivation and pushed it off until the school year started. I still have the all memorized, just need to take one look at each one of them in the book, but it’s a shame because I simply don’t have the time to grind out a large amount every day anymore so now it’s gonna take a while.
Well, you can...you know, start a deck over from the beginning, and the ones that you've memorized now will be even more strongly remembered if you repeat them, so, that's an option.
Agree with changing the stories. I always tripped up on "overnight" and "spring" because the two parts were "white" and "water" and my stories weren't different enough. I'd just see water and white and leap to the (wrong) answer almost every time for weeeeeeeeks.
I'm still pretty new at using RTK, I'm currently using the website Koohii and right now I've completely memorized almost over 90 Kanji and I tend to study 10 kanji a day, everyday since I don't really mind studying it everyday. But now I just realized that once I hit like a thousand kanji it's gonna be pretty overwhelming well tbh I think it's gonna be quite overwhelming once it hits like 500 kanji but I don't know yet. Anyways I just wanted to share :>
The first time i saw this video was when i was studying rtk in anki cards before 7 months and did a 250 kanji by 10 per day, now i did 436 kanji by 23 per day and i don't wanna quick anymore so the next time that i will watch this video will be after doing finishing RTK 1
Fun video. I'm not to the point in were I need to start kanji yet (or at least I don't think I am) because I'm about halfway into japanese from zero book 2 and the biggest most conplex sentence I can do is (テーブルのうえにねこがあります) but I will definitely keep this video for when the time comes.
I think you can start at any point. I haven't even started book 2 :D. Well, I'm using another textbook at the moment though. You could decide to do RtK little by little. Like 5 kanji a day for now, and then once you want to tackle kanji you can increase the frequency? Just an idea? :)
Kevin Abroad good idea now that you mention it. I enjoy learning the grammar but seeing and being able to read kanji is one of the most fun things you can experience. In that case I might pick up on that idea. Thank you for the suggestion.
I don't use RTK, but learn the "traditional" in-school way and I found the first 300 kanji were the most difficult, and from then it just kept getting easier. For the last 6 weeks I have only done ~10-20 reviews of vocabulary / day and now I'm at 2800 reviews 😂
Interesting video, I think it is worth noting the traditional RTK as described in the book itself advises writing out the character by hand, so by completing the book as recommended by Heisig himself you can write by hand 2200 odd Kanji by the books end. For general advice I found that the biggest problem I had was mixing up similar words, so I would add the Pinyin to the front of the card. For example in chinese 海洋 means ocean and one of the characters got assigned the key word of ocean in RTH and the other got the key word of sea, the pinyin helped me not mix up because if I see yang on the front of the card I know that it is 洋 as the sound comes from 羊 . Another problem I had was getting the right primitive elements but writing them the wrong way around, so sometimes visualising specially where the different characters in my story (primitive elements) were located helped me write it the right way around. I think all in all I would say don't stress too much, they get easier to remember over time especially when I started reading more in Chinese this helped an awful lot, so I would encourage people to use what they have learned kanji wise in real context should they get the chance (to start with I mostly did texting as it was a nice easy way to get started)
After finishing RTK, it obviously doesn’t teach you how to read the kanji considering there are 2 readings (kunyomi and onyomi) for nearly all kanji (or so I think) What study methods do I do so I can begin to learn how to read Japanese text such as magazines and books
What I've been doing so far is to read easy Japanese graded readers. They gradually expose you to basic kanji and that helps you start reading them. I'm also going to start a textbook soon which includes kanji. So I hope it'll help!
I'm still in the process of learning readings myself! What I'm doing atm is reading graded readers. I think the key is to learn how to read kanji through reading lots of texts until it sticks!
