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Ran out of patience... Trying English from Chinese!!
I have heard that this course was altogether impossible for people who had no knowledge of Mandarin, although I knew a few characters, 中文,男人,女人,& 我, I decided I don't want to wait for Duolingo to make Mandarin for English speakers so I am taking the reverse course as a native English speaker to get a head start. I am using google translate to get the pinyin so that I know how to type each word as I work from my PC. I will be committing to one lesson a day and a lot of review. I tried the first lesson, it seems doable, although will be tougher than anything else I've delved into on Duolingo. Does anyone have additional FREE resources for learning Mandarin? as I have no job and am going to college (freshman), as I may not be able to get through the course without additional resources…… Wish me luck! And happy language learning everybody!
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Download HelloChinese, and join this https://discord.gg/ADdR45y It's solely for learning Chinese/English (all varieties of Chinese and English) and it's very friendly.
1980
It supports either character set. As does Chineseskill. This is selectable via settings/options or similar.
1980
If you know no Mandarin at all, you will, at the very least, need a decent grammar book and dictionary to consult. I'm not sure what the point of doing the reverse tree here is if you haven't done the HelloChinese and/or Chineseskill trees, both of which are plainly modelled on Duolingo (and both free). I'd suggest learning at least a few hundred of the most common characters first. You can find a frequency list here.
This userscript ought to provide you with Mandarin audio in the reverse tree.
1409
I am studying the reverse tree, and personally, I think a beginner may face too many unknowns using it: Hanzi, pronunciation, and grammar as well. So, I recommend that you first study HelloChinese (plus some Hanzi flip app/site), then come back to it later after you’ve equipped yourself better.
But if you still prefer to go through with the reverse tree, I suggest using a Hanzi reading plugin like this one, to spare yourself switching back and forth between the lesson and Google Translate.
Here is a university course in Mandarin, from MIT, with course materials:
http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/99899
And here is an online course by the EU: