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.
Will have to try this. The hardest part for me will probably be forming the habit to sit there and actively listen. Tried a couple listed as Super Beginner though while the impetus is fresh. Ended up being a nice demonstration that I have retained some Mandarin from my other attempts to learn it because there were things I recognized and went “oh yeah”.
For me, I’ve found the only way to be consistent, is to limit my number of minutes per day. I used to try to do 30m-1h per day, but found that wasn’t sustainable, so now I only do 10m of mandarin and 10m of spanish every day, tracking them with a habit-streak app to stay honest.
If you find you can only do 5m per day, that’s still better than nothing.
Makes sense, thanks. Better a little something than nothing at all, yeah. That’s the mindset I’ve tried to follow when using apps in the past, more or less.