Due to various reasons (a film shoot I was working on, plus a minor surgery), I’ve missed out on about two weeks of practicing/doing challenges, whereas once I was doing several a day. I’ve completed the first 2 levels but upon starting the next challenge I realized I’d forgotten a significant amount. I’m worried that I’ve somehow ruined my progress and may have to start all over again, though I do still remember a fair amount. I guess I’m wondering how to best get back on track after this break - should I keep going with level 3 and hope it comes back to me, or go back and review previous challenges first?
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I’d say keep going with level 3 - most of the earlier material will show up there in some form or other eventually
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From my experience the best way is always try and keep going, first.
If you feel lost, don’t worry or panic! you can always go back and do the last 4-5 challenges of Level 2 and then proceed with Level 3.
I found 'level 3 quite tough at first, right after Level 2. So I took a break, never repeated older challenges, just let it sink somehow, listening to songs and watching a bit if tv (I mean, in Welsh!). And when I tried again it went much better.
However this is what worked for me, I know other people did great in different ways so always worth experimenting a bit!
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If you feel you need a quick recap before you push on, just have a run through Challenge 25 of Level 1 and Challenge 25 of Level 2, and that should refresh everything. It will still be there in your long term memory. You just need to jumpstart the retrieval process 
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That’s the nature of learning - our ability to recall is always moving up and down in a kind of waveform - the mistake is to think that ‘forgetting’ means it’s entirely gone and you need to start again from the beginning - you don’t… 
Just keep on pushing on (using the last challenge of Level 2 as Dee suggests if you want some extra work) and each item will come back via the spaced repetition, and you’ll get back up to speed…
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I just redid level 1 challenge 25 - I feel like I remembered a lot I thought I’d forgotten, but also made a fair amount of mistakes/couldn’t remember the answer quite a few times
That’s absolutely normal - if you went through 25 without lots of mistakes, it would be a sign that you needed to be pushing yourself harder… 