Is there anyone here who completed the course and remembers all or the vast majority of the characters? How long would you estimate it takes to complete the course? I know it varies depending on how good and constant you are. Let’s say an average of time with default settings. 1 year? More or less?
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Hey Fabio,
I haven’t completed the course but am a decent ways in (>1000 characters >1500 words) and it’s taken me about seven months to get there being quite dilligent. I did take several breaks so that I could refuel and let loose a bit but I’d say nothing out of the ordinary.
At this rate probably by next year this time I’d imagine being done with the course although that’s assuming progress at a similar rate. For reference I’m on the 20 items a day setting.
In terms of recognition I’m very confident with the vast majority of the characters I’ve learned. In terms of words there are a couple that I mix up every once in a while but that I imagine will smooth out once I move on from HH into reading and using the words in more context.
Thanks and let me know if you have any questions. Keep truckin!
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Thank you very much 
I’m currently studying Chinese characters following Remembering the hanzi, but I’d like to try Hanzi Hero. I have been learning Chinese for quite a few years, about HSK 4 level, but I want to focus on characters again and learn the most common ones to ease my reading and ability to learn new words.
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HanziHero was born out of my own personal frustration with the Heisig method which I wrote about here. (I also have a YouTube video about it as well). You are more than welcome to take advantage of our free tier to try it out to see if it is an improvement for you. As always, if you come across anything we can do better in your trial, let us know so we can continue to improve our app and system.
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Eventually it would be nice to have sentence flashcards of the usage examples of each word.
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What type of cards do you think these sentence cards should be?
The current meaning/pronunciation testing we have seems excessive for sentences 
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I guess a self-graded type of card. English in front. You translate yourself out loud. You flip card listen to the Chinese audio check the characters and pinyin, then select if you were right or wrong. Of course you need to have already covered all the words in the sentences.
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For me personally, it can help to drive home the meaning of words if I see them in sentences.
You can approach this in a way of using the current example sentences and having pinyin visible for words that the person does not yet know, and then have the blank spot where they write in the pinyin for the word being studied, for writing in the meaning it gets a bit funky.
It’s hard to have a really effective implementation using sentences unless the content was rewritten (or at least the sentences were constructed) in an i+1 manner, since then people are only encountering one new word or concept per sentence.
Most of the times, sentence cards tend to be pass/fail rather than writing anything in them. If the system was i+1 these could be an additional review on top of what is already there.
Since HanziHero is essentially a clone (and I mean that in the most positive sense) of WaniKani though, I don’t know that it makes too much sense to try and get sentences in there. What could be more useful (and this happens with WK due to the size of the audience) is recommendations for native material once people get to certain levels of HH. Graded readers, things like that.
What I suggested is a lot of work though and hard to pull off unless you are both full time on HanziHero. Unsure what you’ve got planned and your current workload.
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In my dreams, HH and DuChinese do an integration where HH can show you a list of stories in DuChinese sorted by % of characters known. Or sorted by the use of most recently learnt characters, or recently mistakes.
I do a lot of SRS sentence reviews and they’re great, but actually using new words or recent mistakes in some real way (reading, speaking etc) really is the best if you can manage it.
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This is a great(!!) take I often forget about 
If you don’t actually use it – even if you grind thousands of SRS sentences – it doesn’t stick as well as actual immersion.
This could be theoretically possible
One concern would be whether having a pass/fail card inbetween typing cards would reduce the flow state.
I guess sentence reviews would file directly underneath “Extra Study”
Taking advantage of all the sentences made thus far does sound like a cool idea though, and would be another “step” toward approaching native material.
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