Hi @igormuba, just to detract from this conversation, you said you posted your technique for learning Mandarin. I too did that a while back but have fallen off with the Mandarin because of a lack of practice opportunities.
Are they easy to find; or perhaps you can link me to one or two?
Thanks
Cg
I use an app called “Duolingo” to take daily quick lessons, and a website called “iTalki” to hire a teacher to give me daily classes. There is another app challed “Du Chinese” which has almost daily new Chinese stories and you can bookmark words you don’t know and they have spaced repetition decks which are awesome to memorize.
Duolingo is free (although the ads are annoying).
Italki you pay by the hour, some teachers charge as low as $5 an hour but some go over $10 an hour.
Du Chinese is free but some stories series have to be paid to unlock, like you can read the first one but the rest is locked for premium, never bothered me though.