Hi Kevin. In order to improve your memory and remember words you can follow 2 methods. First is the repetition-based method, where you learn words by writing them several times or saying them repeatedly until you remember them all. If you patiently follow the process, you will see your vocabulary extended very well. Secondly, you also need have to have a notebook with your own note-taking rules. Each time you log onto Italki, note down any new words in this Answers section. The only problem is whether you want a rich vocabulary or not. Any good plan should answer the four following questions. Firstly, how many words will you learn a week: 5, 10, 5 or more? Secondly, when will you learn them? At a fixed time every other morning or anytime you feel like learning?This is what I personally recommend . Thirdly, how often will you review what you have learnt: once a week, once a month or before a test ? Finally, what areas will you focus on: sports, music, games or sciences? The answers may vary a great deal from one person to another depending on memory, schedules and interest. Otherwise, your study results won't be as you expected. You can gain a big vocabulary and improve your English by simply by determining what field of words to learn, making a plan of learning, choosing a learning method and regularly practising your plan and method. Although it is up to you, daily vocab learning is better than weekly and weekly is better than monthly.Good luck.

Well, there is no real answer for this question. It all depends upon the person and their own memory skills. However, generally it is possible to learn quite a lot of new foreign words very quickly. You need to think of a way in which you think you can help yourself remember easily. For instance, you can create little mini stories in your head (1 or 2 sentences) and relate it to the chinese word so that it can give you a reason to know a particular word. I do this when I learn to write 汉字。I can learn, write and remember about 30 -50 each day. I have a friend in Shanghai who has english notes everywhere in her apartment to help her remember words. For example, on her fridge she has the word 'fridge' stuck on there...or on the door of her bathroom she has the word 'bathroom'. It's a cool and simple technique that works well for her. Good luck to you :D

You could put it in a sentence. That way you would understand the meaning in context.