中文¶

My goal will be to learn Mandarin Chinese and traditional Chinese characters. Specifically, to read a newspaper, write and type, and converse well-enough to (for example) ask meaningful questions at a museum.

做清單¶

• currently deferring study

建議¶

These are resources that I have found the most useful, and would recommend to anyone learning Chinese.

聽和說¶

• Learn zhuyin and pinyin
• Practice tones and tone pairs
• Develop comfort zones, 舒適區
• Beginner: children shows (like 我在哪裡, Magic Marker)
• Intermediate: subtitled shows (like Happy Chinese)

讀寫¶

• Understand 繁體字與簡體字
• Practice 書法
• Focus on Forms 語法
• Read newspaper
• Read books, poems

Other (helpful) resources

• zdic.net (dictionary)
• mdbg.net (word dictionary)
• pleco app (Chinese dictionary app)
• memrise
• hellochinese app
• learnchineseez.com (stroke order animations)
• sinosplice.com

不建議¶

These are resources that I tried, but ultimately found to be lacking.

• Michel Thomas, unfun and sleepy, misleading explanation of tones
• Pimsleur, boring, bad audio
• ChineseSkill app, too buggy, unfun
• ChinesePod app, giant advertisement asking for money
• http://www.hackingchinese.com/
• https://dictionary.writtenchinese.com