01/25 Earlier lessons are forgotten very quickly
The primary purpose of Pinyin in Chinese is to teach Standard Mandarin Chinese pronunciation. Mastery of Chinese pronunciation is one of the most important tasks in learning Chinese. In the CLO approach, words taught in previous lessons are constantly reused in future lessons, giving you constant review within context. As a result, all the Rocket Chinese review vocabulary you learned in the earlier lessons are forgotten very quickly. This means that each lesson is independent of the previous one and centered around a particular topic, with the current topic not related to the previous one. Many podcasts use a theme based approach.