yea that's my fault, that was terribly worded.
what I meant is a lot of people like to just cram as many as characters as possible, and that's something you need to do, but you need to see the language used in a natural way to really get a good grasp of it. of course, at the beginning, all you can do is cram characters. but youre going to reach a point where you'll start learning words that you wont know how to use. some of my favorite words in Chinese are phrases I never say in engish. ive seen my fair share of people that just cram a list of vocab and are helpless in conversation because they actually have extremely limited exposure to how the words they've learned are practically applied.
what I meant is a lot of people like to just cram as many as characters as possible, and that's something you need to do, but you need to see the language used in a natural way to really get a good grasp of it. of course, at the beginning, all you can do is cram characters. but youre going to reach a point where you'll start learning words that you wont know how to use. some of my favorite words in Chinese are phrases I never say in engish. ive seen my fair share of people that just cram a list of vocab and are helpless in conversation because they actually have extremely limited exposure to how the words they've learned are practically applied.