That’s a great idea! We are in the midst of adding a skip portion to lessons. I think up next soon after that is a way to skip or “hide” items that have already been started and show up in reviews.
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What I meant is not to skip them that I already know, but rather skip them, because I don’t want to learn them right now. For example, older and younger sister and brother are unimportant to me.
Else I’m back in my routine, I try to do my reviews in the morning before work and then learning the new cards through out the day. Combining pronunciation and meaning was a great addition!
I’m now level 9 and half roughly 3/4 of HSK1.
I’ve been staying at friends too much, so I haven’t had time to schedule online classes, I really need to prioritise it more, as I’ve started talking to chinese tourist and I just don’t come up with questions I can ask haha
My summer looks though already very full and I also want to revise my vietnamese before going to a vietnamese monastery…
Finally done with HSK1. Most days I only find the time to do reviews, for 15-20 minutes and on the weekends I’m adding new characters and words. There were two holiday breaks in between. One where I didn’t put on vacation mode, so it was a lot for a few days. The second time with vacation mode, it was quite smooth, except for items, I’ve seen just once before.
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“Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take Heed! Do not squander your life!” - Dogen Zenji
I guess I should also take this for my mandarin learning. Since writing the last time 6 weeks ago I’ve learned 150 characters (I’m now roughly at 500). I’ve recently changed my daily new cards from 20 to 10. I really would love to do 20 new ones a day, but I don’t find the time for it, so I fluctuate. I hope with limiting it to 10 I get better consistency. With 4 new characters a day I should roughly finish HSK3 by end February, my roughly planned arrival date for Taiwan. This should be good enough I hope 
Thank you so much for making Hanzihero, I don’t think I would have learnt any amount like this else. Some things that came up the last month.
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HSK 7-9 words. Quite often these words come up even if there is a HSK2 word still to learn with the character. It might not be the “optimal” one, but learning an obscure character is not helpful. I often skip these now. I think it might be good to tweak the algorithm a bit to favour lower HSK words.
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too many same meaning. I don’t know how many “to welcome” I’ve learned. It don’t find it very helpful as they come up at the same time and then when trying to use them, I get confused which one to recall correctly and which one is to use in what setting. There I don’t really have an idea for a solution, maybe spreading “similar meaning” words and characters a bit apart.
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characters and component separate. I don’t care much about HSK as I don’t plan to take a test, it would be great to have an option to always learn immediately the character after the same component if there is one.
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Undo the undo. I sometimes am too fast with the undo, it would be great to undo it.
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Sample sentence for characters if they can be used alone. For many characters I don’t know of they can be used alone or mostly with others, so it would be great to have some sample sentences.
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My first recall is terrible. Most times when I learn a word, the next day they come I don’t know them. This is probably because I’m too often studying it when I’m tired, but I think the integration of new characaters is suboptimal. Not sure if anyone has some tips for it. I try to recreate the 10min from Anki, by learning them first and doing them a couple of minutes later but it doesn’t work that well.
Thank you again!
PS: Also if anyone is in Taipei next March a Hanzihero meetup would be fun!
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You need supplementary learning resources. Hanzi Hero teaches Hanzi great. In order to learn when to use words, 多音字, and grammar, you need some other learning resources and immersion.
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Yes please
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Yes please
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Yes please. Also other learning resources help here.
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I had this same problem. Now, I write the characters and words from my lesson as I am going through the lesson. I write the character and pronunciation only. I then review them the next day before starting reviews; I focus on recalling the mnemonic which includes the meaning. I notice that the characters learned yesterday always show up at the end of the review. That is now the easiest part of the review for me.
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