The Physical Classroom

Most of my focus to-date has been on gaining verbal skills, and my primary tool for this has been recored audio lessons. This makes it possible to study just about anywhere. The primary physical classrooms I use are:

1. Vehicle. Listening and speaking practice while driving.
2. Home. Good for elements of study that require being on-line.
3. The woods. I refuse to use an MP3 player while running in the woods, but sometimes I will memorize dialogues and then periodically repeat them during the course of a run. If you ever are in the woods and you hear someone run by speaking bad Chinese, it probably is me.
4. The workplace. A good place to find native speakers to throw words at. More on this later.

Classrooms #1 & #2

Classroom #3