study chinese every day

So I was proficient in Mandarin. I haven’t studied it now for over a year. I need to study on my own. I’m forgetting everything!!!

I’ve been learning about seven new words a day, which is a lot considering how I do it. I use a writing brush to write each word fifteen times. After each time, I write the tone on top of the character and then say it aloud. After I finish writing the word in my practice book, I put it on a flipcard for later study. I’m also practicing about 50 characters in oracle bone script at each sitting.

My Chinese has reached a plateau of pretty-goodness, and it’s going to take concerted effort to improve it. I want to study every morning and “make progress every day.”