When I was 19, I impulse-bought Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters. It proceeded to languish on my shelf until I was 34 and suddenly decided to get serious about Chinese. I am now 36 and as of this morning know all 800 characters taught by this book and about 400 more besides. The final character is "win".
A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him