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    • @panic@lemmygrad.ml
      8•2 years ago

      Hello Chinese looks fun to start. I believe you will need back up material, like a pirated language course with book+audio, to reach an intermediate level. LingQ offers graded reading material if you don’t find enough on Libgen. Italki is an app to get a (paid) language tutor if you ever have the money to afford a class.

      I’m sorry if I’m old school but I haven’t found a gamefied language app that will make you reach a high enough level. The old method of a self managed language course plus graded readers still reign supreme.

      • @i_must_destroy@lemmygrad.ml
        5•2 years ago

        Definitely. I think an app would be a good way to start though. I learned how to play guitar from one of those silly apps, so stuff like that can be useful as a starting point.

        But I agree, you need to do hard work to really learn.

        • @panic@lemmygrad.ml
          5•2 years ago

          I wanted to be really cheeky and say “LibreTorrent, Moon Reader+ and VLC player” but I didn’t. I’m a saint.

          Check out apps like Viki, iQiYi and WeTV to familiarize yourself with the way Chinese sounds. YouTube has an impressive collection of Chinese dramas as well. Be careful though, Chinese dramas are usually dubbed over so don’t get shocked if you don’t think mouth movements and the sounds match. Chinese YouTubers can help you understand the way a person normally looks when they speak.

          The perk about dubbed dramas is that the voice actors have real good Mandarin pronunciation.

    • @ZeroGravity
      -1•2 years ago

      Not very useful unless you plan to move