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)

I can't seem to find a study strategy for learning Chinese so I feel like I'm not progressing. I signed up to CPod under a year ago, but to be honest, I mostly log in to view the message boards rather than download the lessons.  Even the newbie lessons seem like a struggle.  I really want to learn and improve, and despite living with a Chinese person, I just can't seem to get into the way of learning. I've lots of books and CDs and home too which have never been used. I feel like it's all been a waste and I know that logging into the site every now and again and downloading the odd lesson is not going to help me progress. How do I find the right study strategy?