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what is a good way to learn mandarin? (europe.pub)
submitted 2 months ago by CommieKhinkali@lemmygrad.ml to c/china@lemmygrad.ml
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Hi,

I've tried duolingo for about 2 months straight and all I know how to say is rice, american, italian, english, water and some other useless stuff, it doesn't even teach you to write or anything like that. It sucks.

I know the best way to learn a language is to go to a teacher or something, but I prefer not to do that and learn it online.

It will probably be harder for me since my native language is not english and I doubt there's lessons or something online for mandarin in my native language, but I'm willing to try, I know english pretty well.

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[–] acabjones@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm maybe around HSK2, native eng speaker. Here's what I've done:

  • mostly used HelloChinese (I believe this is very similar to duolingo)
  • I browse xiaohongshu
  • Pleco: dictionary and hanzi char meaning
  • Recently I've been trying out comprehensible chinese. See the "Lazy Chinese - comprehensible input" youtube channel
[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago

LazyChinese is a great channel.