1500 Hanzi 一千五百个汉字

Nĭménhăo, dear readers. I have been diligently studying since we last spoke. As you may recall, I’ve been cramming 60 characters a day into my head, using Heisig’s famous system in Remembering Simplified Hanzi. There are two volumes of RSH and Vol. 1 takes you up to 1500 characters, learned through an elaborate yet precise…

Returning to Chinese after some travelling

I did a huge pile of work and also travelled a lot in March, so Chinese took a back seat. I even took my Heisig book away with me and optimistically carried it in my hand luggage everywhere I went, yet my schedule was so full that I didn’t get a look at it. I…