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Refreshing their HSK 3+ course was a good move. Definitely there’s a lot I can’t remember but there’s a lot that I do know. I tend to book when I have a free time slot. I keep an eye on what lesson I am taking but not generally bothered if it’s repeating the same lesson. I put more emphasis in having a lesson to encourage revision and regard it as another chance to practice. As expected, my reading out loud was quite poor. It has got better quite quickly though. Listening is improving. I’m more willing to stop the teacher and ask them about a specific word that they just said but which I don’t know the meaning of. Speaking is poor. I am not able to produce full sentences correctly. I tend to produce phrases which can be understood. Will have to practice speaking whole sentences derived from the lessons. At the moment, I am taking lessons an average of just under two lessons per day. This time trying to take notes down and make physical flash cards for vocabulary. Back to more traditional techniques for the basic foundations. Although I can function with getting around using Mandarin, conversations in a social setting are very difficult. I can’t get past two or three sentences.