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Thank you! I'm working for a computer company in Kaohsiung. There are no Mandarin classes outside my working hours. I'm doing what I can with private tutoring a

Thank you! I'm working for a computer company in Kaohsiung. There are no Mandarin classes outside my working hours. I'm doing what I can with private tutoring and self-study, but it's going to take decades before I can read basic signs or have a conversation. I thought about making an app like yours, but also got quite intimidated by the scale. Is there some way to see your character composition database? Lots of words that look like 包 sound like "bao" or "pao", but I haven't yet seen any patterns in the few characters I've actually learned.

barry-cotter 10y ago
It won't take decades. I have not been the most diligent of students in my four years working in Shanghai and it was over s year before I even tried to learn to read a bit. It's really easy to get by in Shanghai with very, very little Chinese too. You won't be able to get cheap one on one tutoring in Taiwan but you can get pretty cheap tutoring over italki.com or another language exchange website. Putonghua and Guoyu aren't that different anyway. For learning to read the best way in the long run is to hand write it but it's a massive pain. Skritter is almost as good and takes care of revision for you. It has a great spaced repetition system inbuilt. You should also get Pleco. The free version is excellent, the paid version is cheap if you actually use it. It also has a flash card SRS built in for practicing vocabulary. There are a number of good simplified Chinese graded readers. I'm not familiar with any for traditional Chinese but if you look through tokenadult's comment history you'll find some recommendations.