HelloChinese is a pretty good app to start.

I wouldn't use Duolingo. Not an effective tool for learning in general and utter trash for Asian languages.

Duolingo isn’t great for learning languages in a useful way but Mango is a great language learning app.

In the US you can get a free family membership (up to 5 people) through most local libraries. That is 5 people per library card.

So far, I really like this website, Immersive Chinese: https://console.immersivechinese.com/

This would also be a good post for !languagelearning@sopuli.xyz

I made good progress at first with the Pimsleur method, but it is very expensive. https://www.pimsleur.com/learn-chinese-mandarin/

I found this podcast really helpful, especially with tones

http://www.languagedomus.com/

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Dimsum Hanyu Pinyin - Learn Mandarin Chinese

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Dimsum Mandarin - Learn Mandarin Chinese

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I also use the hello chinese app, but super chinese is cheaper if you can get either on sale

there's lots of manderin tv shows on youtube

oh and anki flashcards app

I also really like the hanping chinese dictionary app, and the pleco dictionary app

goodluck!

Play a video game that uses lots of talking and team coordination, and play on the Chinese servers.

Wardogs, hell let loose, etc

As a starter, Duolingo isn't bad. Sure, it's mostly slop at this point so keep that in mind. And only stick with it until you realise the mistakes.

I've made really good headway learning Arabic using italki, but idk what mandarin tutors are charging so price may vary

go to China