Jon Gauthier’s Reviews > Learning Chinese Characters: A revolutionary New Way to Learn and Remember the 800 Most Basic Chinese Characters: 1 > Status Update

Slow but steady..

Slow but certain progress. Each new entry yields 3–5 new Anki cards, so I have to space out the chapters in order to allow for the Anki cards to go into rotation. (I started by doing one chapter per day, which was way, way too frequent!)

This is great! The goofy stories make for useful mnemonics. I don't find the phonetic stories necessary — I'm used to learning arbitrary meaning-sound pairs — but maybe I'll start using them once I reach a certain number of characters.