AFTER CHINESE CLASS-- REVIEWING

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Plan your review time. Review at least one lesson each day. Think how you can use your computer to help you review.

Talk to yourself as you walk around or prepare a meal. Listen to the tapes & CDs over and over again as you ride your bicycle or do mundane things. Write a story using the new vocabulary and grammar patterns and get your teacher to correct it.

Note the vocabulary you had difficulty remembering when in class and work on it specifically. This is where flash cards come in handy. Write up your notes on the new grammar patterns in your notebook.

Note each teacher's strong points and build on them, i.e. save your questions on grammar for the teacher who can explain it more clearly; get the teacher who is sharp on pronunciation to keep a close watch on your sounds; and the one good on correcting tones to work with you on them, possibly after class.

Find a sympathetic Chinese friend with whom you can practice regularly what you have just learnt. And when talking with your Chinese friends, deliberately use the new words and grammar patterns just learnt -- don't be lazy and use only what you already know. Your aim is to try out what you've learnt recently on anyone who will listen!