To start with, JFE is just too hard. I got up to chapter 7, and just quit. I might start it again later, but it's just too much right now.
Supermemo is killing me. I've been slowly feeding all my stuff into it, and putting all my new stuff into it. I have RTK1, RTK2 and a massive vocabulary collection right now. I just started with it, and I'm almost up to 10,000 cards. Reviews are way too long - sometimes over 3 hours. If I had hair, I'd pull it out.
And worst of all, RTK2 just isn't working for me. From the beginning, I knew that I didn't want to do it per the book's recommendation, because that would require learning 2500 or so new words concurrently. So I decided to use a method similar to kanjitown. It worked great for the creator, but not for me. I'm forgetting stuff faster than I'm learning it.
To summarize, I feel the members of my forum let me down, and I can't get this stuff under control. My new goal, of finishing Japanese by the end of this year, is clearly impossible. I'm putting in over 30 hrs per week, on top of working a normal job, and I feel like I'm spinning my wheels. Maybe I'll quit.
