While I feel my level is between Intermediate and Upper Intermediate, it all depends upon the subject matter really. I listen to Elementary lessons often, since whatever I can glean from them is usually something useful that I've either missed or forgotten. With Intermediate lessons, I've found typing out the dialog using PinYin input for either Simplified or Traditional output to be useful. It really identifies what I know and what I don't. I question the worth of advancing too far beyond my level and studying too much vocabulary that I'll later forget. I treat each new word I remember and add to my active vocabulary as an achievement in itself nowadays.
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January 19, 2017, 12:39 AMWhile I feel my level is between Intermediate and Upper Intermediate, it all depends upon the subject matter really. I listen to Elementary lessons often, since whatever I can glean from them is usually something useful that I've either missed or forgotten. With Intermediate lessons, I've found typing out the dialog using PinYin input for either Simplified or Traditional output to be useful. It really identifies what I know and what I don't. I question the worth of advancing too far beyond my level and studying too much vocabulary that I'll later forget. I treat each new word I remember and add to my active vocabulary as an achievement in itself nowadays.