Practice
The daily session
The main session runs three tracks at once: words, grammar, and radicals — the building blocks of characters. They are interleaved rather than blocked, so that a single short session moves everything forward and no track is forgotten while you are busy with another.
Three tracks in one session
- Words — the core: recognising, understanding and using them.
- Grammar — rules and constructions, drilled through exercises.
- Radicals — the parts characters are assembled from; knowing them makes new characters readable rather than a random set of strokes.
Each track has its own pool of material and its own reviews, but the session stays single: switching between them within one session is less tiring than separate runs, and it keeps the habit going.
Why sessions are short
The size is capped on purpose. Short daily sittings achieve noticeably more than rare long ones: language rests on regularity, and a long session is easier to skip than a short one.
The size is not fixed: with reviews piled up the session grows so the backlog clears faster, and returns to normal once the queue is worked through.
The daily limit
The number of sessions carrying new material per day is limited. Once the limit is reached you can carry on studying, but no further new words are added that day — reviews remain. That keeps the daily dose of new material from turning into a binge followed by a week of silence.