Remembering the Hanzi: Update

Just a quick update here.  I’ve been at this a grand total of 15 minutes and I’ve gone through the first 2 lessons.  In the first lesson, Heisig tells us that the first 15 characters are those that we already know. He was right. Right off the bat we get the characters for the numbers 1 – 10. The last five in the group are the hanzi for mouth, day, month, rice field, and eye. So, in 2 lessons, I went through 32 characters.

I mentioned that I’m also doing memory training. The concepts in the memory training program and in Remembering the Hanzi are very similar because they encourage the use of vivid imagery to engage the mind.  Our minds tend to think in pictures.  I can really appreciate Heisig’s techniques.  Onward!