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Is the Heisigs Remember the Kanji 1-3 with Top 2 Community Stories the best Anki deck to get? Do I need to buy the book?
It’s pretty essential that you *get* the book, but whether you *buy* it or not… ;)
If you’re just beginning, then RTK 1 should be enough to last you a long time – the kanji in book 3 aren’t that commonly used, so you can easily get away with saving it for later. And by the time you’re done with book 1, any new kanji you see out in the wild will be easy to memorise without a story (just as part of vocab words), so book 3 probably isn’t necessary ever :P. I’ve heard book 2 is pretty terrible (from numerous sources), but if you check it out and find you like it, fair enough.
Just to be clear, we’re talking about “Remembering the Kanji” by James W. Heisig, right?
What method does the book use for teaching?
http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/publications/miscPublications/pdf/RK4/RK%201_sample.pdf
Free sample chapter provided, so take a look.Thanks, マークさん. I checked it out, though I can’t say I enjoy its way of teaching.
Hm. Can’t seem to edit my previous post, so apologies for the double, but after completing TextFugu’s initial 280-something kanji, where would everyone suggest to move next, other than RTK? I enjoy TextFugu’s method of teaching, so anything similar, but for the rest of the joyo kanji, would be excellent.
I’ve heard a few people say Read the Kanji (.com) is good, but I don’t know too much about it.
Also, give RTK a chance ;)
Hmm, ReadTheKanji.com is excellent… but only after you know how to read the kanji :D It’s better for learning vocab than it is for learning kanji.
That website starts off really good but eventually you start getting words with 2-3 kanji in them, so as opposed to learning what a single kanji means it quickly becomes 2 or more which gets rather difficult. (on top of remembering the reading) I’m going back into it when I finish RTK, it’s great for vocab indeed and all the example sentences are helpful!
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I’m now up to just over 500 Kanji using RTK1. I use Skritter and the RTK iPhone app for reviews. I’m going at my own pace.
I’m enjoying the process, but will admit to some frustration that it will probably take me about five months to finish. (I have an old brain, so it is slow going.)
I’ve spent up to 2 hours per day “studying Japanese” yet I can only speak and understand a few basic words and sentences.
It’s going to be a LONG road…
@A.: At least you *realise* that it’s a long road – some people think they’ll become fluent overnight and have a hissy fit when that doesn’t happen :P If you know it’s going to be long and are still sticking with it then that’s awesome :) Keep it up.
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