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Remembering Both Books - zonius - 2010-02-06
Has anybody tried doing the other RTH/RSH book after finishing the first one? (Heisig and Richardson recommend to follow Traditional->Simplified order if you do)
So, how did it go? What did you do when in the second book you've met the regular variants of the traditional (like 誠->诚, 說->说, 問->问, i.e. made by the simplification of the radical) - did you just skip them or learned as new? Also in general, when you made stories for a simplified character, did you base them on a corresponding traditional or made a completely new ones? What was the general experience? Any words of wisdom and warning to the fellow travelers?
Remembering Both Books - transalpin - 2010-02-07
SRSing the entire RSH after RTH would clearly be a waste of time.
I converted the list of traditionals from Book 1, then took only the irregular simplifications plus some regular examples and made them into a deck of just about 320 facts in total. I have to admit, I didn’t get around to going through them yet, but it shouldn’t take too long.
Keep in mind that a number of simplified Hanzi have two or more traditional counterparts, e.g., 面/麵 or 干/乾/幹, which means that in my deck, the same simplified character can occur in two or more facts and that their keywords differ from RSH.
In order to raise the number of Hanzi back to 1500, Heisig & Richardson had to add a few supplementary characters to RSH which are not present in RTH, nor in my deck.
Remembering Both Books - zonius - 2010-02-10
Oh, I see. That's probably a good approach - to learn only the irregular simplifications. But wouldn't there be a problem the set of primitives? I'd expect it to be slightly different from traditional? Not different in the way they are drawn, like 貝 vs 贝, but a different set.