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How it's going - Month 3-4

 Hi, I know it's been a while since I've updated, but life has just completely swept us off our feet. Lots of life changes like moving house and getting used to a new job! Not to mention an ever more mobile toddler who needs constant supervision and chasing around. On the Mandarin front things are taking off even better than I imagined. This is despite us really not able to do learning every day of the week. We're coming to the end of Book 2 of the Sagebook Set 1, which puts us at a whopping 38 characters learnt so far ;') honestly further along than I ever thought possible.  The Sagebook series is becoming  the essential piece to our learning than I previously anticipated. Basically all our learning comes from this book series. It's so systematic in teaching one word at a time, and the sentences do such a great job at repetition; it's the one book that we do every lesson. Yan I think is also getting used to it, it's never a great effort to gently push her ...