http://nihongo.dpwright.com My journey to Japanese proficiency Sat, 09 May 2009 09:25:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://nihongo.dpwright.com/2009/05/heisig-rtk1-complete/ How many people could have predicted from my last post that this would happen?  Probably quite a few, I suspect.  The problem with "taking a break" is that you intend to do it for a couple of days or a week, but then that week becomes two weeks, which becomes ... http://nihongo.dpwright.com/2009/03/a-lapse-in-study-and-a-return-to-form/ I think my brain might melt. I've had a good run recently, and learned a lot of new Kanji, but after a pretty lazy weekend my number of Anki reps has increased manyfold, and I've started to struggle to take them in.  A couple of days after learning them, they come ... http://nihongo.dpwright.com/2009/01/too-many-kanji/ Hooray!  Today I completed part 2 of Heisig's Remembering the Kanji 1, hitting 508 Kanji.  That seemed like a reasonable enough landmark to note here, so here it is. I've really slowed in the past few weeks, when it comes to learning new Kanji.  When I first started, forty Kanji per ... http://nihongo.dpwright.com/2009/01/rtk1-parts-12-complete/ If you look to the right, at the top of the sidebar, you should see a new widget that is both exciting and attractive – a tracker to monitor my progress through Heisig's two Kanji books, RTK1 and RTK3.  The strange numbering owes itself to the second book containing the ... http://nihongo.dpwright.com/2009/01/new-shiny-heisig-widget/ As explained in my previous post, the method I am following to learn Japanese requires that you learn at least 2,042 Kanji before you even start to learn any actual Japanese.  I'm working at a rate of 40 Kanji per day at present, at which rate I should have finished ... http://nihongo.dpwright.com/2009/01/a-game-involving-beads/ I'm not much one for resolutions. Giving up chocolate, or drinking, or playing karaoke games for a year seems to me to serve little purpose. If I ever did find myself doing any of those things to excess I wouldn't want to wait until January 1st to do ... http://nihongo.dpwright.com/2009/01/new-year-new-project/