I started with simple Chinese story books, essays, then moved on to the Confucian texts.

I only start a 'serious' study in chinese a year ago, and that is through chatting among my chinese friends (thanks to italki) and learning to some chinese site. I also bought a cheap, yet a helpful book to improve my chinese skill. 但是，我觉得我得中文是不好。。。 ;)

Hello Melody, Challenging! The idea of being able to read texts in hanzi and write it is quite a challenge.

我学习非常好。。谢谢你。