My new project

Ever since I located this page: The most common Chinese characters, I've been planning to learn to read Chinese on my own. Most courses teach approximately 160 to 200 characters in a Level 1 course, over a period of about 2 months. That works out to 20-25 characters per week. And that's my target. By mid-April, I should be able to read (and understand!) the top 200 of these.

And by next week, I should cover the first 20:

1. 的 [de]
2. 一 [yī]
3. 是 [shì]
4. 不 [bù]
5. 了 [le]
6. 人 [rén]
7. 我 [wǒ]
8. 在 [zài]
9. 有 [yǒu]
10. 他 [tā]
11. 这 [zhè]
12. 中 [zhōng]
13. 大 [dà]
14. 来 [lái]
15. 上 [shàng]
16. 国 [guó]
17. 个 [gè]
18. 到 [dào]
19. 说 [shuō]
20. 们 [men]

Will keep you posted on my progress!