Hi everyone!
I've recently decided that now I feel confident enough to start approaching traditional charactes. I'm just interested in reviewing them. In fact I don't really wanna mess with my memory too much. now I'm close to 4000 words (simplified characters) and I feel like I'd probably waste too much time if I started again rewriting a good part of them.

I know that here is a style setting that allows to do exactly what I want, but I want to be sure that the method is correct, before actually adding tons of new characters (I'm pretty fast in review mode).

Let's suppose that first I want to review the traditional characters I the HSK1 list.
Could you please suggest me the right procedure to do that?

Thanks in advance!

I made a list some time ago: http://www.skritter.cn/vocab/list?list=302418553
It has 600 over entries which are all differences between traditional and simplified. No need to start from the scratch, very often the difference is only in the radical.

Thanks!
Before writing this post I found on google this list, but I didn't feel completely convinced about the method. I mean, do you think that learning just the differences between simplified and traditional characters is enough to properly memorize them?

I would probably prefer to review mechanically all the single words (starting from the most common ones up to the least used ones).

Since you learned way more characters than me, what's your opinion about it?

Ors: your method is sound (I like your idea to review the words mechanically from most frequency to least). Will you be reviewing your words that you've already learned in traditional form? I'm just worried you might forget some of the words you know already (in simplified form), becuase your stats are quite impressive! =D

Does Skritter have a feature where you can learn both traditional and simplified at the sametime?!?

@klooste: You can set your settings to both trad and simp via: http://www.skritter.com/account/settings-study, you would have to set any list you've already been adding from back to the beginning so it can re-add any writings that had been skipped before the setting was changed

@orso135, it depends on what you want to achieve. I'm normally only reading simplified. However, we are also very much in Chinese movies, music, etc. Very often, we are getting DVD's, CD's from Hong Kong and they are in traditional. So I want to be able to read this also - pretty slow and often have to look up characters, but that's OK for me.

On the other side, you need about 3500 - 4000 characters, more than 10.000 words, a lot of chengyu, etc. If you learn it in parallel, you will almost double your reviews per day and you should also do reading in traditional.

The other question is, when do you want to start. Do you first want to be fluent in reading simplified and then add traditional?

There are people who are saying it's very easy to do it in parallel, others are saying they learnt easily traditional after they've been fluent in reading simplified and again others, who have first learnt traditional and found it easy to move to the simplified form.

So it's all a matter of personal choice and target.