Learn it in sentence. Because there are some certain rules in the usage of Chinese characters. The more sentences you knew, the better undertanding of the rule you get. Then every character in the sentence you learn can be used in other sentences.

write and read!! first If you learn the pictographic character of chinese,maybe it will help you to get learn chinese characters !! Because many chinese character from pictographic character !! forexample the person"人” It look like a person stand up; and the farm"田”，it look like four quadrate farm!!

what ? Listen and speak ? oh God , how can I learn Chinese character from it . It's still the dream Read and write're the best skill for u to learn not only Chinese character :)

read and write

I suggest to read some story book.It can be remember easier if put the characters in a story.