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Making progress on learning mandarin (hexbear.net)

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I've been learning for a bit over a week now. Been using the app HelloChinese and some YouTube videos. Also made It a goal for myself by the end of the week to learn about 100 character. To which I was relatively successful at. Though I think I still need some work. The whole tonal thing is a bit confusing to me since I'm a tad deaf when It comes to accents but I think I'm getting the hang of It slowly.

What really motivated me was meeting nice native Chinese folk on Rednote and the current US-China trade war. Hell when I could read the name of the app I was ecstatic lol.

My goal for now is knowing enough to have basic to average conversations and read basic stuff like food menu's and signs. But If I'm still really motivated I might have to learn 2000-3000 characters which is probably enough to read a book.

I'll still see. Not sure what the point of this post was but I hope this motivates ya'll to learn a bit too.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

3000 charecters? The english alphabet has 26. How the fuck.....

I suck at learning languages and hats off to you on your journey.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Don't think of it like learning letters, think of it like learning words.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

There are over 50,000 characters in their writing system. Most fluent readers know 6-8k.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

加油！

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Some app suggestions:

Du Chinese - mentioned in the thread
Pleco
ReadMe HSK - gives you a sentence of your level but with a few words you don't know, follows the HSK progression
ClozeMaster - reading+listening practice, you can get about 20 listening sentences per day using a trick
Drops - turn off the pinyin assist as soon as you're comfortable, it's not good for character practice but I use the app as a way of getting a foot in the door for words. After using it you'll start to recognize words elsewhere quicker

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

我也

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

I think this is correct but “我也是” would probably be more natural, especially in Chinese if the original sentence you're replying to had a verb

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

好的

(I admit I didn't recognize the "也" part, got a lot to learn lol)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

If you want to boost your reading ability try Du Chinese, they have a bunch of graded readers, and they regularly turn the premium ones into free ones for a time so you can read a bunch without paying a cent. After a certain point you can turn off the pinyin assist. Make liberal use of the flashcards functionality in there.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

You should download Pleco, and try Ankidroid.

If you buy the HelloChinese, buy the top premium, the cheap "premium" is a scam, and yiu can't upgrade without paying the full price again.

Oh and DeepSeek for explaining long phrase translations, nuances and etc, tho it's a lib and wont translate/explain "violent" phrases like Death to America

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

{美利坚必死|Death to America}

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

I'm glad you came around on flashcards

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I bought hellochinese premium and it has been worth it FYI. Just the normal tier jit the plus tier. I imagine you'll run into the pay gate soon and would want input. It seemingly goes on sale every black Friday in the US

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I'll see. I have other sources or will find a modded apk or something.