I'd say ideally there are a couple methods you can use, or you can use all or some 1) There are good books for learning characters by breaking them up into parts and creating mnemonic stories. I used Tuttle's learning chinese characters, but I've also heard Remembering Traditional/simplified Hanzi is good. The latter might actually be better since Tuttle only does 800. Be careful, Tuttle uses british English mnemonics, so there are a couple sound issues if you're American. 2) Use a SRS system like anki, it's a lot more efficient. If you study every one of your flashcards twice a day, assuming you learn 800 characters and take 10s per flashcard, that's 16000s=4.5 hours a day. If you stop studying some of cards, you'll start forgetting a lot of the old ones. In comparison, I have ~4000 Anki flashcards I know, and it takes me about 30 min a day. 3) If you want to learn to write, you can use Skritter, although it costs money, and if you do I recommend you be tough on yourself and mark yourself wrong if you use any hints.

When we were young, we were forced to write them down, thousands of times. So maybe you can try, just writing, gosh I feel bad for what we passed through.

I think writing the characters over and over again might help

Set aside a number of characters that you wish to learn then write them down. Flashcards are preferable, recite them twice a day. You'll able to see improvement in no time. Wish you luck on your studies

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