Heisig RTK1 Complete!
Yesssss! Exciting! See that tracker to the right? The one which shows how many Kanji I’ve covered in Heisig and how many there are to cover, in total? Those are showing the same number! That means I’ve FINISHED! Yes!
OK, so, what does “finished” mean, exactly? Well, I still have to review them every day, but I’ve done them all at least once, and I’ll no longer be adding new ones. I suspect there’ll be a couple of weeks of fairly heavy reviews, since especially toward the end I was rushing through them a bit. But that’s ok! If there are any I haven’t learned properly, Anki will ensure that I review them more often and so have the opportunity to make sure I’ve really got them down.
What comes next? Sentences. I’ve been adding a few in drips and drabs over the past couple of weeks as I’ve been approaching the end of Heisig, but now I can really start going for it. Right now I’m getting quite a lot of them from textbooks, since the grammar is pretty well-defined and the readings are given to you. I want to move off textbooks and onto “real” Japanese sources as soon as possible though. Once I’ve got some more sentences together I’ll post some of them up to give an example of the sorts of things I’m covering.
Exciting!
Posted: 5月 8th, 2009 under Heisig.
Tags: Heisig, milestone, success, win
Comments
Comment from dpwright
Time 2009 年 8 月 13 日 at 16:55
Hey! Thanks!
The sentence phase is going ok, though I suffered from having to take another long break a couple of months back because of work. I’ve been back on it for about a month now and it’s going well!
I started trying to take sentences straight out of books and song lyrics and the like, but trying to figure them out in the first place was painfully slow, so I decided to step back a bit. I’m currently working through all the sentences from Tae Kim’s Grammar Guide using a sentence pack I found for Anki. Hopefully once that’s done (I’m about half way through right now) pulling sentences out of real, “proper” source materials will come more easily.
I’m not really “studying” the grammar in its own right, just understanding it in the context of the individual sentences he uses to demonstrate grammatical points…
Comment from V
Time 2009 年 8 月 7 日 at 15:56
Congrats! How is the sentence phase going so far?