Hi,
I’ve tried duolingo for about 2 months straight and all I know how to say is rice, american, italian, english, water and some other useless stuff, it doesn’t even teach you to write or anything like that. It sucks.
I know the best way to learn a language is to go to a teacher or something, but I prefer not to do that and learn it online.
It will probably be harder for me since my native language is not english and I doubt there’s lessons or something online for mandarin in my native language, but I’m willing to try, I know english pretty well.
I also recommend not trying to adopt this entire learning system all at once. You will definitely be overwhelmed. Just start with a couple things every like 4 days, you should be able to adopt the whole thing piecemeal.
Yeah start with pleco and the low-stroke count but frequently seen characters. 一二三四日月男女人左右 etc