As discussed before I plan on revamping my approach to studying Chinese. Given a fixed learning slot length of only 90-120 minutes a day there is only so much I can do, so I need to adjust it flexibly.

Here are the lego blocks that I plan to fill in my schedule with (including the weekends) - some of them recurring each day, others more rarely.

1. As ever: New CPod lesson - listening & working through dialogue, incl. copying grammar points (4x per week)

2. New: Reading aloud exercise! (4x per week)

3. Expansion, Exercise, Audio Review (4x per week)

4. New: Writing slot. 20 minutes of writing exercise based on the current dialogue (5x per week)

5. New: Review old exercises (randomly selected old Advanced or UI lesson) (3x per week)

6. New: Grammar point repetition (2x per week)

7. HSK Textbook (3x per week) / HSK exercises (5x per week)

8. News item (5x per week)

9. new: Character group repetition with at least 3 groups in Flashcard mode (3x per week)

10. new: Writing a small Chinese text (2x per week)

11. 红楼梦 (2 x per week)

12. Chinese radio & podcasts (1 x per week)

13. new: Only-Chinese-in-the-office-torture-my-Chinese-co-worker-slot (4 x per week)

What's the Story has had a nice run, but we're ready to try something quite different and new with video.

Over the weeks we've come to the conclusion that the weekend is not the best time to release videos, because our staff is not working then, and we can't always give the discussion around a new show and a new format the immediate attention it deserves.  That's why this Saturday there will be no What's the Story video. There will be a new video next Wednesday (which will also give us a little extra time to polish the new show a little, which follows a completely new format.)

I don't want to give away any surprises, but the new show is... special. There's probably a better word to describe it which will come to me later.

Stay tuned!