Far West in the Far East: On learning Chinese characters {Gadling}

Dec 24th 2009 12:53PM You'll be there much sooner than you thought. Tou can read most materials with 800 characters, and almost everything with 3000. You've noticed the relationship between its shape and its meaning of a character, your possesions of what you've learned have become an asset to facilitate your moving further. You've have the feeling, how many characters you know now is not so important. I will say you are a genius if the writing on the cholkboard are yours. They have the Ti (body) or personalized shape that is rarely seen non-native Chinese users.