Tonight I hit a big milestone - 500 characters studied from the Heisig book. Although I didn't reach the goal as fast as I wanted to (my original schedule was crazy!), it's still a great achievement. I hope to have the next 500 done in less than 2 months. Easily obtainable if I can maintain the 10 a day pace.
Today I learned the characters for "San Francisco", which I knew already from previous studies (but did not know they formed the name for San Fran).
旧金山 － "Old gold mountain". Interesting!
The disappointing thing was that I couldn't recall the writing for "gold" (even though I had no trouble recognizing it when shown). This is one of the flaws in my current review method - I'm primarily focused on "recognition" (looking at a character and recognizing the meaning). This method leaves the "recall" portion alone, which isn't great if you need to write something. I need to find a good way to integrate that into my studies.
Not much for updates / studies over the next 10 days due to my vacation. I'll update again in early April when I'm back to it.
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