Sometimes I get overwhelmed and my brain feels like a soggy gym sock. Does anyone have any personal study methods which worked for them? I'm crossing over between newbie and elementary lessons (which is great) but I want to improve so much that sometimes I listen to several lessons in one night and try to jot down vocabulary and sentences in addition to reciting them. It's like I either listen to one lesson once or twice a day, or I listen to five of them in two hours.

I was never good at studying when I was in school, so any suggestions at all will be much appreciated. Thanks.

What purpose does Groups serve in the overall process of learning Chinese, for you?  On a scale of 1 through 10, how often do you use Groups and how important is Groups as a learning tool.  For example, do you use Groups primarily as a means to meet other Chinese language learners? Or do you rely heavily on Groups as a discussion forum.

I remember there was a link we could follow that gave us ten votes each and a list of features that had been proposed by users.  Anyway, I thought of a feature request and wanted to submit it there, but I couldn't find it.  I'm probably not looking in the right place, but...

Anyway, I'm tired of looking.  So, I'll just write up my request/suggestion here. 

I am really terrible at the listen and type excercises, and I think it would be helpful to get more detailed feedback on what is wrong than just the checkmarks on the whole answer.  Showing what is the correct answer when requested would help. Highlighting the part of the answer that is wrong would help even more.

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