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I think – after reading the other thread about finding the book for $34 on the U of Hawaii website – that I’ll definitely order RTK. For others, the UH website also has the first third of the book (276 kanji plus some radicals) available online if you want to see what the book actually looks like:
http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/publications/miscPublications/pdf/RK4/RK%201_sample.pdf
Am I missing something on RTK? Koichi (http://www.tofugu.com/japanese-resources/remembering-the-kanji/) says in his review that it helps you learn what the kanji look like and their meanings, but that it “won’t cover other things you eventually need to know, like on’yomi / kun’yomi of the kanji and vocab that use each kanji”. I think I’m doing pretty well so far with learning kanji on Textfugu – I often find the kanji easier than other vocabulary – but I think that learning the readings and some starter vocabulary with each kanji helps a lot.
Does RTK have kanji readings, or not?
Winter – It was mostly that I was wondering why it was taking me so long to get through things. It is possible that Koichi’s estimate was from before he revised/expanded Season 2. And, though I go through Anki and physical flashcards every day (it’s getting to the point where these take up nearly an hour a day), I don’t always have time to go through part of Textfugu every day, so I might be slower than those on, say, summer school break right now.
What are you using currently, now that you’re done (?) with Texfugu? I still have Season 3 and the 5-stroke kanji to go, but I’m going to catch up with Koichi eventually, probably within 2-3 months. A lot of people mention RTK, though I think I’ll pass since I’m more interested in the readings and the vocabulary, which apparently RTK doesn’t cover. There’s stuff out there online to read at a very basic level, but I don’t think I’m hardly there yet. Any ideas would be appreciated.
I’ve actually found kanji readings, meanings, and vocab to be very easy. The teaching style seems to help a decent amount. I think also that the use of the readings in the vocab, and the ways that the kanji are used with each other help a lot – having structure to just about anything makes it much easier for me to learn it (engineer, guilty as charged).
I am getting bogged down on non-kanji vocab, though. I think I’ve taken almost a month to get through the two sets of adjectives in Season 2. I’m doing more of the spaced repetition, and it’s definitely helping, but I only really have the opportunity to spend multiple hours on it once a week, so it’s still slow.
