Well, I did ban a few words, but I just forgot to review my band words afterwords. This is of course a manageable problem.
The main problem I have is that I’m not exactly shure when it’s the right time to ban, since coming across a new character/word, it’s just normal that I don’t know (exactly) how to write it. Banning it right away feels wrong.
In addition for me it often needs some time to have new mnemonics stick. So I’m now trying to have a mnemonic for all characters (where necessary) in place. Besides I’m adding some examples now and then.
So probably the right time for banning would be if I failed on a character let’s say for the third time although I have a mnemonic for it in place and just forgot it again, right?

Great report! The only difference between posting it on time and not is that you can’t win prizes if you post it too late. 🙂 I think it’s good that you’re trying different strategies, that’s one of the main goals with the challenge. Good luck for the final stretch!

Here is my report:
I've learned to recognize a bunch of traditional characters and I also can write most of them. But I noticed that I have no practice my handwriting skills with them… like notes, phrases etc.
So I decided to start a Diary! A diary only in mandarin with traditional characters 🙂
But of course someone have to read it and correct it, so I asked my boss (He's from Hong Kong) to do that job! … and he refused a thousand times. But after a week of prays I could convinced him!
He always scolding me because sometimes I made up chinese characters, so he has problems reading my handwriting notes at the office but I keep learning and practice day by day.

This strategy helped me to use the characters that I had learned before. And I use the strategies of the milestone #2 to learning the new ones.

Thank you for reading me! And I want to share with you a little comic that I made in honor of my boss 😀 (but of course I haven't show it to him yet)

http://pictochinia.wordpress.com/2014/06/08/chinese-challenge-2014/

Ha! I don’t know if you noticed, but I did change your post to non-cursive, but then I must have been distracted by something and forgot to reply to your actual comment. 🙂

Looks good anyway, Skritter is definitely part of my minimum effort approach to learning character, something I will write about relatively soon (I have a draft ready).

I just saw that you’ve awarded me the poster – I can’t stop smiling! 😀 Thanks so much Olle!

😉

No comment for me?

It’s not as if you’ll never see those characters/words again, right? This gives you the foundation, which is still good.

I think this is up to you to decide. I use a relatively loose definition that means that i count something as learnt once it’s left the span of just a couple of days in my SRS.