A few months ago a website called Learn Mandarin Now interviewed dozens of bloggers writing about China and compiled their tips on learning Chinese into a “How to Learn Chinese” infographic.
More recently the same website contacted me with some questions about my personal experience learning Chinese, which I answered and they published here: 10 Tips to Learn Chinese. Although I wouldn’t change too much if I went back and started all over again, this is the kind of advice that I would have been able to benefit greatly from.
If I could distill everything down to a few even more basic suggestions:
- Learn Mandarin first
- Write everything down
- Use everything that you write down