Learning Chinese characters: an overture

As is the norm in my life, I haven’t blogged nearly enough about what’s actually taking up the bulk of my time these days. I’ve been learning freaking characters.

Rather early on in my stay here, I caught word of a calligraphy club at our university. I made sure I wasn’t going to miss an opportunity like that, and attended the first one I could. I learned a hell of a lot in just one session.

Since that experience I’ve gone on to read a lot about Chinese characters, from calligraphic technique, to character composition, to input systems on electronic devices.

In the coming days I plan to post a small series handling each of these categories.

Till then.