Maayot
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Pros
- You want some audio content that's short and "easy", has a transcript, and is leveled to work through, things like like ChinesePod, maayot, mandarinbean, short learners stories on YouTube etc.
- Reading: maayot
- maayot, though I prefer their website
- You might want to check out maayot. :)
- Or try maayot to build up and practice your conversational skills with natives.
Cons
- I’ve been using Maayot for writing practice these past four months and although it’s helped, I can’t help but feel I’m not getting enough bang for my buck… Not even close actually. For $50 a month, you can read a daily dialogue, answer a...
- I’ve used Maayot. Their content is not bad. If you prefer your learning in a daily email, it’s a good choice to use as an additional learning resource. I wouldn’t use it as my primary.
Sentiment
39 positive (91%) · 2 mixed (5%) · 2 negative (5%)
Trust + time weighted score: +88% · raw score 86%
What redditors said (10 of 43)
You want some audio content that's short and "easy", has a transcript, and is leveled to work through, things like like ChinesePod, maayot, mandarinbean, short learners stories on YouTube etc.
Reading: maayot
maayot, though I prefer their website
I’ve been using Maayot for writing practice these past four months and although it’s helped, I can’t help but feel I’m not getting enough bang for my buck… Not even close actually. For $50 a month, you can read a daily dialogue, answer a question, and complete a writing prompt that is corrected by a teacher overnight. This sounds great, but I’ve slowly realized the teacher is putting in maybe ~2 minutes of effort for each lesson. I.e. despite glaring grammatical errors or awkward dictation, they often ignore it.
You might want to check out maayot. :)
Or try maayot to build up and practice your conversational skills with natives.
Try maayot. Feels like it might be good in your case.
then you can use apps like helloTalk, maayot to build up further conversation and use them with natives.
I don't recommend to Learn/memorize them for the sake of Hanzi, but learning them in contexts, unless you just enjoying writing Hanzi. You can try reading them a lot in contexts. maayot is a good site for it.
Can try maayot. Traditional chinese is available and it might give you some good idea of how to approach learning Mandarin.