Do you know of any online resources that would assist in self-learning mandarin?
Duolingo isn’t great for learning languages in a useful way but Mango is a great language learning app.
In the US you can get a free family membership (up to 5 people) through most local libraries. That is 5 people per library card.
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I made good progress at first with the Pimsleur method, but it is very expensive. https://www.pimsleur.com/learn-chinese-mandarin/
a lot of people on xhs recommended HelloChinese, its in the play store, dunno about the app store. i really like it when i remember to use it lol. also, just hanging out on xhs helps, you can practice reading and listening and a lot of creators make content about learning chinese
it’s on App Store too, same with Skritter for hanzi
So far, I really like this website, Immersive Chinese: https://console.immersivechinese.com/
HelloChinese is a pretty good app to start.
I wouldn’t use Duolingo. Not an effective tool for learning in general and utter trash for Asian languages.
I’m also looking for that
You can watch donghua (Chinese anime) like scissor seven
go to China
As a starter, Duolingo isn’t bad. Sure, it’s mostly slop at this point so keep that in mind. And only stick with it until you realise the mistakes.
I would say LingoDeer a 1000x over Duolingo if you go the path of apps. It’s Chinese, non-AI courses, you hear and see real speakers, you have written resources for each category
