Twenty Rules for Learning

1. Understand before you learn

2. Learn before you memorise

3. Build upon the basics

4. The minimum information principle

5. Cloze deletion for learning Chinese

6. Use imagery to learn Chinese

7. Use mnemonics

8. Graphical deletion and audio deletion for learning Chinese

9. Avoid sets

10. Avoid enumerations

11. Interference when learning Chinese

12. 5 ways to optimise your Chinese flashcards

13. Refer to other memories

14. Personalise your Chinese learning

15. Using emotional states to remember Chinese

16. The importance of context in Chinese flashcards

17. Why redundancy is good for language learning

18. Why you should keep notes in your Chinese flashcards

19. Keep dates on your Chinese flashcards