New Year resolutions: Mandarin 2016 In 2016 I plan to improve my Chinese significantly: - By the end of the year I want to know all of "new HSK" 1 to 4 (except for writing and reading Chinese characters) - By Easter I want to have completed the entire first book of New Practical Chinese Reader, and be able to listen to & understand all of the dialogue when watching the videos for each chapter - I want to improve my listening skills significantly. On hacking Chinese website they suggested native speakers have a huge vocab of words they know and can listen to, but they only have a small vocab for their own everyday speech. I want to emulate this. I need to learn many more words but I don't necessarily need to speak all of them. Instead I need to put much more effort into hearing, recognising and understanding words as commonly spoken. - By the end of the year I want to know at least 1500 words. I need to learn about 100 words per month. Seems difficult. But I am determined.