[ru-lai]

It's much more fun to watch native video / read native materials and put in whole sentences that are just on the tip of your foreign language understanding (i + 1 theory from stephen krashen).

Instead of just 1 to 1 vocab mapping, look for chinese tv shows that you enjoy and start to slowly build up vocabulary by mining sentences.

Then when you do reviews, not only will you remember the vocabulary, you will also remember when it occurred in the story and have a cool memory of some of your favorite tv shows / books / etc.

[scns]

I highly recommend this. A swedish girl told me that the reason for them being good at enhlish is they don't get localized movies. Helps picking up colloquial uses of language too, realized that watching japanese movies.