{"id":3307,"date":"2013-01-15T12:15:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T04:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/?p=3307"},"modified":"2020-07-31T21:02:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T19:02:07","slug":"sensible-character-learning-progress-reminders-and-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/sensible-character-learning-progress-reminders-and-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensible character learning: Progress, reminders and reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two weeks have now passed since I announced the sensible character learning challenge<\/a>. Since I wanted to try the rules of the challenge myself before telling everybody else to use them, I actually started a few weeks earlier than the rest of you. In this article, I’m going to share with you some really useful things I’ve learnt during the past month. This is also a good opportunity for you to share how things have been going so far. Here’s what have been published about this challenge so far:<\/p>\n

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  1. Chinese character challenge: Towards a more sensible way of learning to write Chinese<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. You can\u2019t learn Chinese characters by rote<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Remembering is a skill you can learn<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Sensible character learning: Progress, reminders and reflections<\/a> (this article)<\/li>\n
  5. How to create mnemonics for general or abstract character components<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Don’t use mnemonics for everything<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Challenge progress report<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Before we do that, let’s look at what we have actually achieved:<\/p>\n