I am at the beginning of elementary level with around 500 chars in my pocket not living nor communicating with Chinese in daily basis apart from Echo on weekly basis. when i am doing my homework or trying to communicate with Echo,or another Chinese i usually start first how do i say it in English/Arabic then translate it and play with the structure in Chinese. even though i am bilingual it is not the same for Arabic and English, i do not think i just say it and some times i mix both with multilingual people like myself especially at my work environment where everyone speaks both.

I tend to agree with 安迪 that the more dialogs, sentences, idioms we are exposed too would help us think it and use the Chinese way without translating it first in our mind.

What i would really like to see as an addition to the current dialogs is an extra review one that is a question and answer based presenting a different point of view of the actual dialog. for example if i take just one line from a dialog

甲 :你知道我为什么喜欢泡泡中文吗？

so this could inspire several questions? what is popupchinese? since when you started listening to it? when do you often listen to this? ..etc with answers, these questions and answers if supplied in my opinions will add richness at least into the elementary and beginners level.

Jia You