I’ve done things all out of order by doing some Textfugu, then RTK, then back to Textfugu. For what it’s worth, I’d recommend getting ahead on the kanji and related vocabulary instead of the ultimate decks. There’s a lot of kanji-related vocabulary, and I find it a lot easier to digest – since the readings help to relate kanji and kana – than random vocabulary, where I have to come up with a separate mnemonic to remember each word. There’s also a lot of overlap between the ultimates and the kanji-related vocabulary on Textfugu, so by the time you get through the 7- or 8-stroke vocab (yes, I know that there’s no 8-stroke yet, but there will be soon), you’ll already have learned much of the ultimate vocabulary anyway.

Of course, if you have some spare time, you could just do RTK instead. There’s a bunch of threads on here about RTK, so I’ll spare you the speech.

I’d say vocab is the most important thing to learn and to work on, so yes, go for it :D If I remember correctly, Ultimate Nouns contains the vast majority of the “in-Season” noun vocab, and Ultimate Verbs/Adjectives contain *all* the “in-Season” stuff. I whizzed through a large chunk of the Ultimate decks because TextFugu had covered a lot of the words before, so it makes more sense to just go directly onto Ultimate.

I think it’s better to do all of the ultimate decks before the content for the seasons. You can finish them all within 2 weeks for sure. I started doing 30 words a day because I just wanted to finish them.

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