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October 24, 2005
Starting Heisig Bk 1...again
Late in August I reached kanji 652 in "Remembering the Kanji"...then school started and I didn't touch them again for several weeks. A few weeks ago I picked up a few at random and couldn't remember a single one. Ouch.
So, last weekend I resorted all of the cards (they'd undergone an "extreme randomization event") and today I started with the first 100. Most of them were pretty easy: they should be, since I've been reviewing them for a year now. I consulted the book on a few of them to make sure I'm getting the stroke order correct (I continue to have trouble with 上, believe it or not) and to make sure I have the correct primitives for others (like 朝). However, I don't expect to have to do any serious work till the 400s or so, and I'm going to get to that point as quickly as possible.
Permalink | Posted by Joe at October 24, 2005 10:20 PM
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I'm sort of in the same boat as you. I learned probably up to 500 in Heisig's book (I even bought the flash cards), plus whatever I learned a couple of years ago in college, but a lot of crazy stuff has happened in real life since then and I kinda stopped. Luckily, I've been keeping up with the other stuff (audio, grammar, watching Japanese TV, etc), but it looks like starting this month I'll be starting all over again.
I just stumbled upon your blog via the JapanToday forums. Myself as well as a few other Japanese learners have created a community blog. We should trade links! I'll post a link up to your blog now. Keep up the good work! ^_^
Posted by: Mike Smeen at October 26, 2005 02:05 PM
Thanks Mike. I've been reading your site for a week or two, ever since heather linked my page of tips for beginners. You guys post a lot of useful things there, and I highly recommend it for you lurkers who are reading this comment. If you want the good stuff, go to Japanese! Japanese!.
I'm putting together a page of useful links and you'll be on it. Thanks for stopping by!
Posted by: Joe at October 26, 2005 08:17 PM
I've finished Remembering the Kanji book I, and I'm almost done with book II. It's an amazing system once you really get into it. I've been studying kanji with this system for about 1 1/2 to 2 years now, and I know onyomi for almost all the joyou kanji. Keep up with it, it feels great once it starts working :)
Posted by: LittleFish at October 29, 2005 05:16 PM