1. Learn 20 new words each week, then you will have about 960 more works learned in a year. You can practice writing and reading new words each day,and you will grasp new words more quickly and easily.
2. Learn 3 simple and useful sentences each day. Just like Chinese daily conversations,chinese proverb. Remember, learn the simple and useful sentences,don’t learn the complex sentence at beginning.
3. Listen to the tapes of Chinese daily conversations when you have a spare time or an half hour,you’d better listen to Chinese News.
4. Watching TV program "learning Chinese" in CCTV international channel (maybe CCTV channel 9).That channel teach you learn simple chinese sentence and useful conversation.
5. Practice speaking English to Chinese people who can speak Mandarin, and they could corrects your pronunciations. Then you will improve your Chinese pronunciation and conversation and also can learn chinese traditional culture better.
6. Read Chinese book or text in Pinyin, you can learn some new words, and practice your pronunciations. And you learn some new and useful Phrases.