Started Pimsleur

I finished my tone drilling, after being satisfied that I could produce any of the tones in isolation. It was a little boring, but allowed me to start Pimsleur with a bit of confidence. Because I couldn't find a transcript of Pimsleur in pinyin for a while, I tried to use it in the recommended way, meaning no lists. I proved to myself once again that I have very poor aural memory. In the end, I found these these transcripts, but the first lesson took me 5 tries spread over 4 days to complete. Now I have a very stable method for using Pimsleur. I study the new vocabulary words the day before, usually fixing them in my memory with mnemonics. I normally use the linkword method(note - I use the method shown on that website, I don't buy their material). On the first day of a lesson, I write down at least one sentence for each new word, sometimes more if the grammar is confusing. On the 2nd and 3rd days I review the vocab and sentences twice during the day, and do the lesson. I always reach the 80%+ level by the 3rd day. Sometimes I reach it on the 2nd day, but I force a 3rd day because I'm going for maximum comfort. I continue to review a lessons vocabulary twice per day after the 3rd day. Every day I review the current lesson's vocab, and the previous 2 lessons vocab. When I complete all 30 lessons, I'll dump all the words and sentences into supermemo.