If you’ve been diligently studying Integrated Chinese all this time, you’ve built up quite a repertoire of vocabulary already. Time for a little break to review and consolidate what you’ve learned. This week will be just for review.
I recommend you try out Dmitry Chirkin’s Integrated Chinese Vocabulary Trainer. It works for every IC lesson, and supports both simplified (choose GB) as well as traditional characters (choose BIG5). It would be a good idea to click on “large fonts” too. It charts your progress as you go through the lesson’s vocabulary, and repeats the ones you get wrong, forcing you to learn them. Try it out!
Something I wished I had done at this point in IC, though, unfortunately related to vocab. Look up electronic flashcard programs. The truth is, there are far too many characters and words to make flashcards for. You’ll make a bunch, then make them again the next month, and never get anything done.
There are advanced systems which know how to rotate in old vocabulary to keep up your memory. I use Supermemo, but only because I have a time investment in it. jMemorize is nice. Then, if you think there are in particular certain characters you want to study on-the-go, or on the bus, etc, then make index cards.
This counts double if you’re using the workbook, so already have practice writing the characters and getting some working muscle memory.