Learn the Chinese language

我学习汉语。我总找朋友训练中文。

immediately downloaded 宝葫芦的秘密 and 四叶妹妹 for later reading.

So i havent looked at much else, but it already has more hits than Libgen, and I am not really in the know about the actual sites popular in China for this.

I've been studying this book all summer (in my free time) and am a bout halfway through and feel I've learned a lot.

These are the common learning language format, with spoken chinese, pinyin and hanzi, and English translation.

The content about Chinese culture is pretty cool! And there's more being produced.

I'm curious to see how most people study chinese with flashcards. I've fallen out of the habit due to some personal things but I used to just try and work through HSK levels by grinding for like 1 hour per day, but I'm assuming that's not how you're supposed to do it, especially not with SRS 😅

Try to solve it yourself before revealing the answer!

I am aware that 他 and 她 are pronounced the same, but written it is an issue. Is 他们 or 她们 appropriate at all?

I was going through some of these channels individually, but this is a treasure.

她和花花姐姐还最可爱🌚

I think it's really cool and I want to learn it one day, but it's pretty hard and I want to focus on learning the language first. If I could find a good mandarin program that used zhuyin and simplified characters I'd probably learn it, but alas. I'm curious to see what you all think about it!

As a complete beginner that knows how to say 2-3 sentences, how do we get to the point where it's possible to comprehend these sources?

edit: To expand on this, every advice resource i've seen on the internet has said: "forget textbooks, you need comprehensible input!" which I agree with, but how can you begin learning the language to the point at which this is possible?

If you can't tell I am referring to . I would torrent but VPN expensive

de-googling more and more and i was wondering what your favorite Chinese keyboards are on Android. Right now I am using GBoard's, and i kinda like it (你好！我将很臭中文.）but i also kinda hate google (我很恨谷歌。）do any of you comrades have good alternatives?

bonus question: good ways to type chinese on linux?

I'm working through the https://refold.la/roadmap, after probably a few years of duolingo.

I got an anki deck with 40k cards, ordered by most used words, and I'm using gpt to get more context and uses about the words I don't fully understand.

Something like:

I'll type in mandarin words I don't know, please give me a short explanation, a few examples in different structures where it is commonly used, some alternatives and synonyms, antonyms, and common mistakes to avoid when using it.

This added context helps just so much!

Still got a long way to go to be able to listen, but I know my brain works well with written vocabulary first. An then lots of reading. So I'm trying to get to a reasonable reading level.

Anyway! What's interesting on your learning setup?!

Just finished making my first, for numbers 1-10, some teens, and some double digits. out of the total 25 I made, it was an absolute grind. Wanted to know if anyone out there has shared their decks, so lazy people like me don't need to make them ourselves (lol). Thanks in advance, comrades!