The 1833 seen cards in this deck contain:
1012 total unique kanji.
Jouyou: 1008 of 1945 (51.8%).
Jinmeiyou: 0 of 287 (0.0%).
4 non-jouyou kanji.

Jouyou levels:
Grade 1: 72 of 80 (90.0%).
Grade 2: 150 of 160 (93.8%).
Grade 3: 181 of 200 (90.5%).
Grade 4: 167 of 200 (83.5%).
Grade 5: 146 of 185 (78.9%).
Grade 6: 111 of 181 (61.3%).
JuniorHS: 181 of 939 (19.3%).

Whoah. More than half of the kanji already. Though I kind of doubt if it will reach much more than 1100 by the end of KO 2001. Oh well. Will manage the rest somehow, rite?

Meanwhile, iKnow
core 6000 Step 1: 95%
core 6000 Step 2: 76%

Is going to start Step 3 by the day after tomorrow.

http://alyks-rant.blogspot.com/
This guy inspires me.
I like the idea of collecting the sentences first, then pick between them. But this only works with digital novels. If I do that with a non digital one, that’d take hell long to type sentences.

So I’ll try to hit Haruhi after finishing KO. Not sure if I’m gonna finish iKnow Core 6000 or not. After removing the easy ones, it does gets more challenging. But some words have very familiar kanji, and yet I’m not used to the compounds and often get mixed up between them. But never mind, I can save about half of the time since I can cut half of the vocabs.

It is not that fun doing KO or iKnow Core (though it is more fun with the quiz like GUI). I also think it’s more fun if I read my favourite manga straightaway. But I barely see hard/unrecognizabe words when I read manga. And I want to improve faster. Since manga doesn’t contain words that show up on the news, or on scientific stuff(?), I guess doing KO helps me on that matter.

Reading math related stuff would probably help me better. But I’m not that interested on it, besides, I don’t really have the material. But of course there’s google. But still, manga and anime are more fun, yes? I’d rather go through KO than going through news articles and find the words. *shrugs* I do need to tackle the Japanese math, but I’ll leave that matter later I guess.

Euh. Currently at around KO#725. Trying to input 25 kanji per day. It’s hard to keep it daily. I’d miss 1 day in between now and then.

So i decided to try this iKnow, since I thought it’d help with the leftover kanji from 2001 Odyssey (still a bit over halfway) and it’s a good thing to learn common words that I’m still not familiar with.

I started today with Core 6000, part 1. Since I don’t want to go into the more basic one. Even with this level, I know well most of the words, and I think I’ve seen all the words before, just that some I’m not too familiar with. But never mind. The iKnow GUI (launch it, and it’ll load a big flash GUI, it took awhile) is game-like, and it’s fun to click on.

My target is 1 lesson per week, so I can finish it before I leave for Japan. That’s quite tough. I did 17 lessons, 170 words, to reach today’s target. Total words for this part is 250. So I suppose I’d have to review those words in this one week.

You can choose one lesson with 5 or 10 words. I chose 10 words to get me faster. I finish one lesson in about 5-6 minutes. It keeps on repeating the words and testing you on kanji-meaning, kanji-reading, and so on. I think not having to read the sentence is also a good thing. You just have to listen the sentence being read after you correctly answer the question.

There are some settings you can change, background, go slowly, or set your target date manually, test on romaji only, etc. I really like that I can set the target date.

I’m gonna try to finish all 12 lessons of core 6000 before May. That’d mean I have to learn 4000 words in 3 months! Not really, since I studied JLPT 1 and 2 already (though not considerably passed). Should’ve something like this when I studied JLPT. orz

I can read well after that, but then… there’s still problem with my kanji writing skills. I really need to review Heisig again, yes?

My dad was saying how I can stand seeing NHK’s boring programs, when if I watch such programs on local channels, I’d definitely shriek and change it. Haha. Um, that’s how much I adore Japan? I’d turn on NHK whenever I can. Even if I don’t exactly listen to it, I still hear them. I still think it helps, to get the uhh… kotsu, eh, the hang of it. The tone, the grammar, the way they say “uhh”, or “…de”.

Anyways. NHK is not that boring or not cool at all. Though my brother who also likes Japan can’t stand it. It actually has lots of varieties. But of course, I am very biased when it comes about Japan. Even my friends say so. Haha. But I understand Japan has its bad sides. Still, Japan has been my idol since as far as I can remember, and will always be, more than my country and my origin. And that doesn’t mean that I hate them.

The 1117 seen cards in this deck contain:
838 total unique kanji.
Jouyou: 836 of 1945 (43.0%).
Jinmeiyou: 0 of 287 (0.0%).
2 non-jouyou kanji.
Jouyou levels:
Grade 1: 69 of 80 (86.2%).
Grade 2: 145 of 160 (90.6%).
Grade 3: 168 of 200 (84.0%).
Grade 4: 141 of 200 (70.5%).
Grade 5: 118 of 185 (63.8%).
Grade 6: 77 of 181 (42.5%).
JuniorHS: 118 of 939 (12.6%).

Didn’t know where’s the burn menu from finder. So I reinsert the CD so that the auto pop up menu show up. Haha. Some programs are still in English, though. So far it’s been fine.

I decided to turn my mac into Japanese. Still haven’t logged out yet, so I haven’t seen it yet. Been on Mac for 2 months, so I think I’m used to the interface already, maybe… Will see later.