It's a little late for me as I've just worked my way through the 1500 most common characters using Skritter but I do love this highly graphical approach. Remind

It's a little late for me as I've just worked my way through the 1500 most common characters using Skritter but I do love this highly graphical approach. Reminds me a bit of the Heisig system (which I haven't actually done myself). Some of the statements in the text are a little dubious. For example, that you only need 1,000 characters for basic literacy and that with the top 200 characters you can read forty percent of Chinese popular literature. I've read elsewhere that 1,500 characters is considered the minimum for basic literacy (a university graduate will usually know 3,000 or more). Even if 40 percent of the words in a given book make use of the top 200 characters, that only means you might occasionally recognize the odd character here and there. The meaning of the text will certainly still be utterly incomprehensible.