Hello,
Until now I've been using Skritter on an iPod touch to focus on reading. I've had only reading enabled, as I prefer to test myself on reading, tones & definition together.

Recently I've decided to start writing. I'd like to start from the beginning of my lists for writing, without resetting my reading progress.

Even though my progress shows only 25 characters learned for writing, and over 500 for reading, when I enable writing I only see the newest words from my lists. Furthermore, words added while I have writing on are not appearing for reading.

What's the best way to start from the beginning for writing without starting over for reading?

Thanks!

i would suggest start from the scratch.

reading i.e. recognizing a character is much easier when you have written it.

- Go to the Study page
- click on your list
- click on Change Study Settings
- Change the Add Vocab Fom setting to the beginning of your list
- click on Save Changes

Now your words from writing should start adding from the beginning of your list.

It's probably not a good idea to try to study reading without writing. At a certain level it'll get too hard and you'll plateau. Unless there is someone out there who has successfully accomplished that feat. Anybody?

@JB, though really regardless of how you study you'll run into plateaus at some point. The most important thing is to keep going and not give up.

I had a friend who was very strong with reading and speaking, but had never studied writing. He was actually motivated when going back focusing on writing, because of all the connections he was making with things he'd already studied made for a lot of "aha" moments.

@JB: I study reading without writing, although I did study writing for a while (so I can write legibly with standard stroke order).

Writing undoubtedly makes reading much easier, but it also takes more time. Would someone who spent 100 hours on reading+writing be more competent than someone who spent 100 hours on just reading? It's an interesting question that deserves research.

I don't know if someone like Jake is aware of any studies on this question.