Thinking about it now, I find it strange that I’ve never written about James W. Heisig and his landmark work, Remembering the Kanji. It was in 1997 while I was studying in Japan that I came across the book. I was still in this “I must write every new character a million times every day” frame [...] ...full story at Sinosplice
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