Before I share my learning routine and advice for RTK I would like to write about my personal experience first: When I started to learn Japanese, kanji seemed incredibly difficult. They were just a chaotic combination of strokes to me. Then I came across the book Remembering the Kanji (RTK) by James W. Heisig. Volume 1 presents a total of 2.200 kanji (including most of the jōyō kanji ). I used the german version of Remembering the Kanji The beginning was promising. I easily learned the first few hundred kanji. This experience was amazing. I never thought that this could be possible. But then I made the mistake of proceeding too fast . I saw forum posts of other RTK users who claimed that they “finished“ RTK in 3 months or even less. This motivated me and I tried to learn 25 kanji a day. Even though it was difficult to create memorable stories for this amount of kanji every day I moved on. After my first try to learn kanji with RTK, I forgot a great part of it after I "finished...
While trying to learn Japanese I struggled most of the time. Looking back, I've spend so much time searching for promising methods, read about them or watched videos from different language learners who claimed that their method would be the most effective — instead of actually learning Japanese. Even after knowing so much about language learning, I still didn't know how to use this knowledge to learn Japanese. I knew the theory, the recipe. I tried some methods and combined different parts that seemed useful but I never felt satisfied with the results. Switching so often between different methods wasn't beneficial. I always asked myself if there's an even better method out there. With the "right" method, I thought, I would be able to learn Japanese the "right" way, like the other language learners I saw on the internet. Being not able to really make progress with one of these popular methods, I had the impression that I did something wrong a...
Japanese books read: 56. I finished 『オルタネート』by 加藤シゲアキ . Before I share my impressions please keep in mind that this book was very challenging for me. I was able to follow the story but I missed a lot of details and nuances. This book was difficult at my current level. That's why I intend to read it again in the future. The following is just my current opinion. When I read the book again in a year or so my opinion may be different. Please take it with a grain of salt. Main characteristics First of all, it was very different from the books I've read before. The pace is very slow, in my opinion. There are 3 main characters and the point of view changes in every chapter between these 3. So it took a lot of time until I was familiar with every character. Only the last few chapters break this pattern and have a much faster pace than before. Another difference is that it seems to be a slice-of-life story. I usually read fast-paced stories where a lot of things are going on. This boo...
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