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    RTK Progress Report 2 (Ni)

    Oh man… At 475 completed kanji it’s getting more and more difficult.

    I’ll try to explain:

    This method involves you grouping Kanji into three basic categories:

    Shin-Kanji or New Kanji characters- Where you write in a notebook the Keyword, make up a story about the kanji/keyword, write the kanji once, then input it into [...]

    RTK Progress Report

    So it’s been a couple of days since I’ve started James Heisig’s First Kanji Book, Remember the Kanji: A Complete Guide on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters. The report is that I haven’t given up… Somehow between the actual chance at remembering them and the fact I [...]

    Remembering the Kanji

    If anyone has tried desperately like me to learn something, anything really, we must construct a method that (for us only) works. What I mean is that often we might come up with devices that make sense only to us for remembering things like Kanji. I remember once when studying the Latin words for [...]