Sorry, I asked this before in the general forum but I was afraid that nobody would see it there, so I was compelled to ask here also. Forgive me!

I really would like to know what is the best order to learn Kanji and Hanzi using the RTK/RTH books. I am planning on learning both languages. As I will begin learning characters before starting on the actual language, which character set would allow the most efficient learning of the other? I probably will not learn the traditional Hanzi set until I get Kanji and simplified down, or is this the wrong approach?

If I go through the RTK 1 + 3, should I then do the RTH Simplified course? Is this the best way to go, or is it the other way around?

Thanks
Aqua

If you did the kanji first, they're basically the traditional hanzi (with some changes), and you would also be able to recognise the simplified primitive elements in the simplified hanzi. If you did the simplified hanzi first, you would recognise the old forms of the primitive elements in the kanji.

It doesn't really matter, in the end.

I'd go with Kanji first, since there's so much more support for it. There's a lot of overlap between the books, so there are only a few hundred traditional Hanzi in RTH that are not covered in RTK. Once those two volumes are out of the way, it should be a breeze to skim through RSH and notice the systematic simplifications.