...Why? That advice is universal for a reason. The side adventure with Claude Code strikes me as a distraction from the fact that there is a hard thing you want to do but are avoiding because it's hard.
Meanwhile others read books and get pretty good at their language of choice in a couple years.
A shame that this amazing resource is not linked.
Edit addendum: https://blog.kevinzwu.com/chinese-cursed-logographic-dags/ is a fun read. I've been using the imaginatively titled "kanji study" app, which uses the same Outlier database mentioned which has the graph based etymology.
There's an additional level of chaos when learning the "same" characters as kanji rather than hanzi.
Also for anyone who speaks or is currently learning Chinese... I've been working on a multiplayer CJK word game that shares a similar efficient brute force style of learning to the author's approach (although presented via gameplay instead of tooling). Every turn you get a random character and must type in a word that contains the char in ANY position. If you like fast paced word games it might be up your alley: https://danobang.com/?game_lang=cmn
Hm. I always knew voice mode was a thing, but I have never tried it. What's people's experience with it?
Being able to correct my words is a good thing. Hell, I did it ~3 times when writing this comment. I can't do that when I'm rambling. I'll trip, or CC will think I'm finished.
> I would then click on the component characters to open their nested dictionary entries. SLOW!
> If I needed to remember the stroke order, I would scroll down for the static display. SLOW!
So, all of these are included in Anki-xiehanzi(https://github.com/krmanik/Anki-xiehanzi). Free open source software like Anki & xiehanzi can save you from using all those tokens.
WIP (need more work in multi-hanzi words), but won't stay in the same 5 words for more than a day. it has been working well for me
the most interesting thing was GPT helped with the sentences and simplified words meaning and bing translate provided the audios
the goal is get the ~2000 words you need to be proficient in 1 year, 5 words a day plus refresh old words, also it keep track of your progress against the year, no streaks
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