Even though video embed isn’t working, I’ll just say: MEG
That’s who I’m listening to. Not *quite* as good as Perfume but she has a similar style (on her album “STEP” at least).

:D

Edit: I doubt you’ll read a thread like this, but MANY THANKS Koichi for introducing me to MEG in your Tofugu article on cat videos :3

• This reply was modified 13 years, 7 months ago by  MisterM2402 [Michael].

@Brad: Want an easier way to add RTK items to Anki? File>Download>Shared Deck and the RTK 1+3 deck is the most downloaded one, right at the top. Et voila, a deck of all 3000 or so RTK entries (minus the new bunch that are in the 6th edition [which can be found in a separate deck, also in the DL section] and any RTK 2 content [but that sucks anyway :P]), with kanji, meanings, Heisig numbers, lesson numbers, stroke numbers and space to add on-yomi if you so choose (if you want kun-yomi, just make a new field for it). You’ll lose any progress you have so far if you switch to a new deck, but that will save you 9001 hours in the long-run :) Just select all the cards you haven’t done yet and click “Suspend” so they don’t show up as new cards until you unsuspend them.

On a related note, Bbvoncrumb really needs to move his “How to use Anki (like a boss)” thread over here – his thread, so HE should do it :P Plus, it has his screen-caps in it and his methods.

Edit: as for Koohii stories, go to the Study tab and put the frame number in the little search bar, up comes the page with lots of user stories, pick one, Bingo!. Also, use the Manage tab to add the cards you’ve done so far so they can be reviewed. Actually, the most important thing to do is to click the “Learn More” button at the top right, tells you how to do everything! If you’d done that in the first place, I wouldn’t have had to waste precious Japanese study time to type it out for you – a little common sense/intelligent guessing would work wonders for you! :P That sounds harsh, but it’s good advice: when you are stuck either turn it off and on again or consult an FAQ ;)

• This reply was modified 13 years, 7 months ago by  MisterM2402 [Michael].

You don’t even need to use # – the word “textfugu” itself will make the tweet appear on the widget/feed.

But anyway, I use it all the time, mostly to ask Koichi quick questions. I don’t really tweet about my progress much because no one but Koichi cares XD The only reason I got twitter was to converse with TextFugu so I don’t have anyone else to see my tweets anyway. Any notable success I just post in the Study Thread.

The 6th edition has the new Jouyou Kanji in it, so you’re fine.
But yeah, don’t do RtK 2. I wouldn’t even recommend doing RtK 3 either: at the stage you’re at, you’re not really going to encounter many of those kanji so it’s not really a worthwhile endeavour.

I’d say the method you’re using is fine, just a little slow. Either cut it down to writing the kanji only 3 times, or use Anki to “Cram” them (goddamnit, I wish there was a sticky thread so I didn’t have to keep explaining this and everything else >.Cram, go through the list a couple of times, clicking “Soon” each time so that it will show the card again. Not very good if you like keeping your Anki stats high, but they don’t really matter, right? If you’re really bothered about stats, just make a duplicate deck to Cram with. You shouldn’t need to do so much repetition at the start since that’s what Anki is for.

You should aim to do more kanji/day as you get better at it. Use kanji.koohii.com for stories since Heisig’s are a little… rubbish most of the time haha.

Also, I’d really recommend using Koohii for keyword->kanji flashcards and Anki for kanji->keyword flashcards – doing it both ways (giggidy) really helps with remembering them.

Cramming and two-way review are two things I wish I had done from the start. Try them out :)

Sheepy, if you’re reading this, get that goddamn sticky thread going! Or Cassandra! XD

9001.