@liztai wow, so you can hear and understand (some) Mandarin, but not read the characters? That's completely different from a beginner trying to learn Chinese from scratch...I'm impressed. So what you're doing is taking the radicals and stroke order of the written character and associating it with a character you already know from the spoken language. I'm glad you found a deck that works for that...do share your progress as you go along, as I'd love to hear how you get on.