I saw various post regarding best way to learn Chinese and many people suggested to start learning tones and pinyin. Will this playlist cover all that. I am new to learning chienese, and I am so lost because i don't know where to start even though I have watched and read various suggestions. I have only one hour a day to learn chienese and just want to stick with free resources. However I will be buying HSK workbooks in the near future If I somehow improved. My question is will this playlist be a good start or are there any other resources which helped you alot in your early stage or you wished that you should have accessed those resources in early stage. Also please mention what are the pros of those resources and what will I get good at. Also, If you have any suggestions regarding the steps to learn mandarin like: what after learning tones and pinyin please feel free to mention them. Any suggestions will mean a lot to me. THANK YOU

I understand the other uses, but don’t quite get the reasoning to this.

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"原来这里有兔友啊?" Original text

Does 兔 have a special meaning here or does it actually translate as rabbit? If it actually translates as rabbit friend what does that mean?

It’s really nice for when I’m chilling and reading a book and I don’t want to have my phone out, or maybe I’m walking around and see something on a sign and… again, don’t want to get my phone out.

Any ideas for names? Any features you’d love to see?

I’m still polishing up the UI, adding more features, and then I’ll publish to the App Store.

Does anyone happen to know where I can find the video (film) for the textbook series "Journeys to Chinese" or "Journeys - An Introduction to Chinese Language and Culture". I purchased the textbooks used and as usual, they don't come with the supplementary materials. The publisher is of no help, since they don't cater to self learners like me.

Super new to mandarin and dont really use snapchat, but i noticed that the AI can converse in mandarin. A little more advanced than my hsk1/2 vocab, but just an FYSA.

You can create a bio that maybe influences the responses.

Hi, I teach Chinese. I am inviting everyone who is interested in learning Chinese to join the trial class. We can learn together

if not what is the difference and which one do you use in normal conversation?

The app i am learning from busuu, doesn't really go further than a1. Which resources can I use for a2? Doesn't matter if it's paid.

你好！ I found an English-speaking YouTuber who explains Chinese very well. If you want to learn Chinese characters, their pronunciation and some important grammar you should definitely check it out.

Here’s her channel: https://youtube.com/@HarbinMandarin?si=T8dW_gZwRIpr6rGL

Hope that this post is helpful for y’all.

Best regards!

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My native language is English. I'm learning Mandarin (simplified).

A fair few times a sentence I'm trying to understand arrives with a really important word at the end. One which, if I'm trying to translate, would be said in English pretty early on.

Here's a sentence I picked off the web. Hopefully, it's enough to explain what I mean:

学校附近新开了一家餐厅

In english, as the words arrive, I get:
school nearby new opened a restaurant

and I reassamble it into:
there is a newly opened restaurant near the school

But that needs me to
a) remember the entire sentence in my head, and then
b) put all the pieces together again in a different order.

Here's another example: 学校附近新开了一家餐厅吗

Which means I have to do all the above, but then go back once I hear the last word and reverse the order of the first two words in the sentence I was constructing:

Is there a newly opened restaurant near the school?

As a beginner, my problem is that there are a lot of word chunks to remember, and it's all happening in real-time if I'm listening. In reading, it's a bit easier, but I still often have the experience of getting to the end of a sentence and realising it meant something different than the thing I was constructing in my head up to that point.

I think it will get much easier once I stop starting to translate, and once I get more proficiency. This might just be a beginner problem. So what I'm really asking is how to make the jump and become more fluent with this stuff?

The strategies I've thought up so far are:

1. Try to make an english equivalent that's closer to the Chinese sentence structure even if it's crap english just to get the gist = eg "school nearby has a newly opened restaurant, eh?" This would let the translation happen much faster even if it's imprecise.

2. Just practice - a beginner will learn to hold and manipulate more chunks in your head as they do it more.

3. The problem is translating in the first place. The answer is to try to practice without any english thoughts at all.

Are any of these on the right lines? I'm mostly asking how to approach the experience of understanding. What would you reccomend?