Getting to the End

So, we've seen a handful of mnemonics so far, along with how things are laid out in the flashcard deck.

From here on, you're going to be on your own when it comes to kanji mnemonics...

Well, sort of. You still have the help of Heisig, Koohii writers, and everyone in the NihongoShark chat community.

Have you joined the community yet? Aside from help with specific aspects of Japanese, the community can provide quite a bit of moral support, too. If you find yourself losing faith in your ability to get through all of these characters, or just losing motivation to study in general, you'll find people who have gotten through similar hardships in their journey to Japanese fluency.

Be strong. Have fun. It'll all be worth it.

Will it take 97 days?

Not exactly.

Our old kanji deck used to have 2,136 flashcards. Doing 22 a day, that was 2,134 in 97 days... so you could just do two extra kanji on the last day.

Our new deck, however, has 2,200 flashcards. If you did 25 new kanji per day, then you would get through all of them in 88 days. Or you could still aim for 97 days and do zero new cards on 9 of your study days (for example, when you are feeling overwhelmed by a large number of cards due for review).

Speaking of doing zero new cards in a day, be sure to have Anki set up so that it shows you new cards after you've finished reviewing your cards for the day:

Anyway, you could still do 22 a day, and you would finish in 100 days exactly, which is pretty cool, too.

Rather than obsess over how long it's taking you, it might help to just do as much as you can possibly bear each day.

It will be a struggle. But it does end eventually, I promise you.

And you will feel such an incredible sense of accomplishment when you finished learning the meanings of these characters.