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The flash card approach used to teach young kids is a great way to learn a new language. You can cut and paste new vocabulary into individual pages and print them out. You can put Chinese on one side and the translation on the other. Or you could put the translation at the bottom of the page and fold it over. Once you have a stack of these pages you can test yourself by flipping through them and seeing which words you recognize. Put the words you get correct in one pile and put the words you got wrong in another. The next time you repeat the exercise go through the “wrong” pile and try and reduce the number of words in there. Our mind is trained to remember things we see again and forget those we don’t, which is the whole approach behind our course.

As our podcast involves a lot of repetition on your part, try and find a suitable place for you to best use this podcast where you won’t be disturbed and more importantly where you won’t disturb others! This way you can focus on the repetition and saying words out aloud without being distracted. Perhaps this could be in your car on your way to work, or in your private study at home.