My goal by the end of the year is to learn all 1200 characters required for HSK4. By "learn," I must know how to write the character, its meaning, and how to read it. Following this goal, I will turn my sights to HSK5. My ultimate goal by the end of university is to have learnt all characters for HSK6, totaling around 5000. However, I am doubtful that I will continue to memorize the handwriting for each character past HSK5 due to volume.
My goal by the end of the year is to learn the 2500 most frequently used words in everyday
speech (taken from Wikipedia) by the time Christmas comes.
To practice conjugation, I coded my own verb conjugation quiz using the 50 most frequently
used verbs in the language. You can find it here: