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

It’s in the planner. Prefer to be a little proficient before visiting though.

good idea

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: console.immersivechinese.com

I made good progress at first with the Pimsleur method, but it is very expensive. www.pimsleur.com/learn-chinese-mandarin/

This would also be a good post for !languagelearning@sopuli.xyz

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.

I’ve made really good headway learning Arabic using italki, but idk what mandarin tutors are charging so price may vary

I found this podcast really helpful, especially with tones

www.languagedomus.com

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I also use the hello chinese app, but super chinese is cheaper if you can get either on sale

there’s lots of manderin tv shows on youtube

oh and anki flashcards app

I also really like the hanping chinese dictionary app, and the pleco dictionary app

goodluck!