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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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[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For me, I've found the only way to be consistent, is to limit my number of minutes per day. I used to try to do 30m-1h per day, but found that wasn't sustainable, so now I only do 10m of mandarin and 10m of spanish every day, tracking them with a habit-streak app to stay honest.

If you find you can only do 5m per day, that's still better than nothing.

[–] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Makes sense, thanks. Better a little something than nothing at all, yeah. That's the mindset I've tried to follow when using apps in the past, more or less.