@caseybaumgartner,

I'd suggest that you can do some useful practice while going through our lessons online. After listening to the podcast, you can try to make sentences and write a short story with the new vocab of that lesson. This will help you to use those new words so that you can remember them and will be able to use them in the future. Writing a short story is also interesting. You can write about anything you like. Then you can read the dialogue aloud. After that you can try to retell the dialogue in your own words. It's a very good exercise for intermediate students to make a long speech in Chinese.

--Echo

echo@popupchinese.com