Have to say Memrise is awesome. After a two year avoidance of learning the language I started taking lessons recently, which incorporate getting to grips with the characters. Only trouble has been I haven’t really had a foothold on them while learning to speak at the same time, but Memrise is simplistically brilliant. The one thing that would make it even better would be a visualisation of the tones for Pinyin, but otherwise what a great tool for learning. Also reminds me of a huge memory system I picked up years ago that makes great use of visual association.
Thanks for posting this Ian.