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A year is definitely too early - I'm a middling student at it (and weak at text), and would be lucky to get 100 characters by sight. As you say though, it's all
by vacri 9y ago
A year is definitely too early - I'm a middling student at it (and weak at text), and would be lucky to get 100 characters by sight. As you say though, it's all about practice, and I need to apply some "bum glue" (to quote Stephen King) and just sit down and do it. A Chinese colleague of mine said that throughout high school, he had nightly homework of 6 new characters, pretty much every night. Ouch!
Thanks for the link - it will help and I've been meaning to look for one (phone apps with your finger aren't quite the same).
- imron 9y ago> A Chinese colleague of mine said that throughout high school, he had nightly homework of 6 new characters, pretty much every night. Ouch! 'Pretty much every night' is the most important part. Learning Chinese characters is a grind and you just need to keep chipping away at it. Pick a nice sustainable number of characters (maybe 6, maybe 3, maybe 10 but something that takes maybe 30 minutes to an hour to do including revision) and then do it every day without fail. Number of days in a row spent learning is far more important than number of new words learnt per day, so always try to optimise for the former rather than the latter. At some point, almost every Chinese learner who has spent more than 3 years learning the language has looked back and thought 'why oh why didn't I just learn 3 characters a day'.