I started chinese this past year and I used HelloChinese with free Duolingo (+free Ankidroid) and it was useful cuz Duolingo offered more variety of sentences to fixate/practice any topic/grammar rule (which Duolingo never fucking explain lmao). Then I finished the HelloChinese course but the Duolingo one added a whole 45 chapters section recently, so now I'm doing HelloChinese Stories, free Anki and free Duolingo.

(I also still have DuChinese which system I really like but for some reason the stories I picked up were boring/weird compared to HelloChinese ones, but HelloChinese Stories system suck ass tbh)

Oh and once a week I enter Xiaohongshu to read comments and get slapped by how fucking far I am from real use, and very happy when I do understand things.

[–] mactan@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hit the end of hellochinese and ended up moving on to superchinese it has modules through level 6 . I still like hello chinese's "immersive lessons" a bit more though

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

I'm trying Superchinese now and there's too much info going on with the collective cards and pop ups but eh interesting how different it can be

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It does take over a year and a half of intensive study to pass the tests they give to diplomats.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

I know it's gonna take me a decade at least

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