Alright… So I’ve been messing around with things a little bit more, and I think I’ve come to a decision. For now. =) I’m actually surprisign myself with this. I’m going to use JUST the PalmOS portion of Stackz (PalmStackz) for my standard drilling. I’ll also use Anki for Palm OS, which is a flashcard program I’ve used for years. It can do multiple choice, which I think helps a lot when first learning stuff. Finally, I’ve installed and played around with KingKanji and I’ll be trying the 30 day trial of that out. I like not having to carry around pencil and paper to practice my Kanji writing, and KingKanji actually gives me feedback on my Kanji. I’m planning on doing at least a little pencil work with each Kanji, bujt I’ll do that at home. My PDA is where I’ll be doing most of my learning. Very nice if I do say so myself. As usual, let me know if all none of you who are reading this have any better ideas. =)
Once I get through the Kanji phase of the program, I may mix things up again as far as software goes, but this works for me. So… I’ve done the first lesson of Remembering The Kanji(RTK). And by done I mean I’ve read through it, and I can identify each character on site. I’m now working on going the other direction. (See the meaning and write the character.) I should be moving on to lesson 2 tomorrow.
At this point I’m planning on just seeing how many I can do in a day. the first 15 were a breeze. If this keeps up, I think I could do 40-60 a day, given enough time. And that just may be the deciding factor. Time. 20, at least, should be no problem, and I can probably pick up the slack during the weekends. I guess we’ll see. Assuming I can keep a pace of between 20 and 60 Kanji a day that works out to roughly 1-3 months to learn all the Kanji. I don’t plan on taking shortcuts to “get it done”, so I’m leaning toward the 3 month figure, but we’ll see if I can keep up a quicker pace or not.