As of 4:30 this afternoon, I am *DONE* with Volume 1 of Remembering the Kanji! 131 days after I started. Obviously, this isn't the end of kanji study. Beyond reviewing, there are the 157 kanji recently added to the General Use list that I need to learn, and I will probably go through RTK3 at some point. (I want the same level of literacy in Japanese as I have in English; that means being able to read novels, which don't abide by the General Use list all that much.)
Still, it feels pretty good to see that magic number of 2042 on my kanji SRS deck.
So where to go from here? For the next month or so I'm only going to have access to my bi-lingual sentence sources (All About Particles and two different sentence pattern dictionaries.) Not exactly the most intriguing material, but it should hopefully get me started on grammar and vocabulary.
I have nine novels on order: the first four 涼宮ハルヒ novels, and 俺の妹 1 and 3-6 (2&7 went out of stock while Paypal was doing their thing, so I'll pick those up later. 1-4 parallel the anime anyway, so I don't think I'll miss too much.) Will probably pick up the Railgun manga when I can find somewhere to buy it other than Amazon. Also looking at getting a bunch of Bandai/Funamation localized anime -- Japanese voice tracks and region 1 encoding, and a hell of a lot cheaper than importing. (Seriously. Full series of Air and Kanon for 20 bucks each? I'm there.)
And so, phase II! Begin!
