Friday, May 31, 2019

How long does it take to memorize 1,948 Chinese characters?

ANSWER: It depends.

If you memorized 100 characters a day, you could memorize 1,948 characters in less than three weeks, but if you are in a hurry, you could try learning them with the YouTube video below, which teaches them in less than 7 hours. If you could do that, it would be Wow-worthy.
There may be some people who are unable to memorize all 1,948 characters in less than 7 hours, so they may have to watch the video more than once, but even if you are able to learn all 1,948 characters in less than 7 hours, you would still have to regularly review them so that you do not forget them. Therefore, if you like to eat your breakfast, lunch, or dinner in front of your computer, or if you are tired of watching animal videos on YouTube, I would suggest watching the following video instead during those times. You may be surprised at how much you can learn with just frequent exposure.
Remember:
A video can be paused, and it beats turning pages, so for you slow learners, you might study just 10 characters a day, and restart the video each day to first review the characters you have already learned before learning your next ten characters. That would mean you could learn 100 characters in 10 days, or all 1,948 characters in 195 days, which I guess would be all right.