Intermediate Chinese

Language strategists pls help---it's about Chinese. My weak point was always vocab, vocab, vocab... and recognising the characters.

So, /lang/ I have a wonderful list of Chinese characters here, namely the 3000 most commonly used (that Jun Da-list); I have a neat vocab-program to drill through the list. I also have a 3000 entries long word list of contemporary Chinese vocabulary. The difference is: one list contains the single characters, the other contains the bigram words (with two characters).

Which one should I learn first?

Why bother torturing yourself. Chinese is an inferior and primitive language anyway.

No grammar to let you be precise about what you're saying, not even plurals, and only one tense for verbs. 

Awful phonetics (lol tones), that make you sound retarded, and mean you have to say a word a certain way, every time, not allowing for sarcasm, emphasis, etc. In fact there is not even a Chinese word for sarcasm; it doesn't exist in Chinese.

No alphabet. ...

I could go on, but basically this is a primitive language inferior to every European language, and to top it off, it's much harder to learn.