It was great to get back into the swing of practicing writing characters. It may not be the highest on my list of priorities, but I think it has lots of long term benefits, and I enjoy it quite a bit as well. Looking forward to the next challenge!

I added another chapter today. I have certainly forgotten many of the words I haven't practiced in a while, but it doesn't feel like I am having to learn them again; I just need to be reminded.

Part of learning characters is studying their make up. For this I've been using Yellow Bridge online, which has a horrible ad - filled interface, but great features including nice-looking stroke animations, and offline, I've been using Rick Harbaugh's Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary which I would heartily recommend to anyone studying Chinese.

Anki on the phone

added more words to Anki (ch 19) and practiced writing

anki

Just plowing through Anki

Added characters to Anki and studied both old and new ones.

Used Anki to practice writing. In addition to the words added during the last challenge, I have added the characters from the first three chapters of NPCR 2. I plan to add some more chapters in the coming weeks.

I didn't realize this day was part of the challenge.