3 Ways to Learn Chinese Better and Faster (from http://www.thechinaexpat.com/3-ways-to-learn-chinese-better-and-faster/)
Learning Chinese isn’t easy, or is it? No matter how long you’ve studied Chinese, there are efficient and not so efficient ways of tackling the language. Since you are already on such a tough journey, why not take the path with the biggest pot of gold at the end?
Some things are much more important to focus on than others when learning Chinese for use in the real world. Why? Because they are help make learning Chinese faster and more efficient, at least in the long run. Let’s take a look:
3 Things you must focus on to get better in Chinese
  1. Tones
  2. Individual Characters
  3. Sentence Order
Let’s go through these one at a time: (read more )