An octogenarian student says for learning Chinese characters, she writes the pinyin (/romanisation for the pronunciation) for the characters that she recognises in pencil on the text.
Her approach to learning is commendable, but I'm not sure I understand the logic of it.
Surely there's no need to write the pinyin on the text for the characters that one DOES recognise? If one already recognises the character, I'd have thought one wouldn't need some/any form of mnemonic.
Surely one only needs to provide annotation(s) (after looking up the pinyin, and writing it down against the relevant character[s]) for those characters that one does NOT recognise (/ will have trouble recognising subsequently, however many times)?
Or am I missing something here??
(UK, 2026)
PS: A while after posting this blog (yes, my brain's arrived on the slow train), I wonder if maybe she just needs to reassure herself that she knows the pinyin (/ romanised spelling) for the character(s)?
