汉字日记

Hanzi Diary · a learner's notebook

How I review characters without burning out

Five review intervals, a strict daily limit for new words, and why I stopped cramming.

2026-08-14

Tones: the four mistakes I kept making

Third tone sandhi, the neutral tone, and why 买 and 卖 are not the same thing.

2026-07-02

Why I started learning Chinese

Not for work, not for travel — mostly out of curiosity about characters.

2026-05-20

Word lists

Lesson 1Lesson 2Lesson 3Lesson 4Lesson 5Lesson 6Lesson 7Lesson 8Lesson 10