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Learning basic Mandarin Chinese 你好 I have decided to start studying Mandarin Chinese, but I haven't attended any lessons yet and I wouldn't dare to practice with a native speaker, because I feel it would be a bother considering that I can't speak the language at all. I'm starting with pinyin, but my pronunciation is terrible. Could you please recommend me any websites, apps... any methods, in general, to start learning on my own? I plan to take lessons, maybe here with a teacher here via italki, but something to help me practice anytime by myself would be great too. Any tips you found useful when you started studying Chinese? Any piece of advice is welcome. Thank you very much in advance. Xièxiè

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Try the Chinese courses on memrise. They are free. Watch a few videos on sentence structure and pinyin on YouTube. I have been playing with Chinese as a way to move off a learning plateau. It is absolutely amazing that I can recognize the pinyin when I hear sentences. I have learned to read a few hundred characters in just a few weeks with their associated pinyin. I can enter characters by sight on my iPhone. There are excellent resources for Chinese at all levels. I wish other languages had such great resources.
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I really like Yanyyang Cheng's video courses on http://yoyochinese.com/. They are a little pricey, but I think they are extremely helpful, and have very clear explanations for English speakers. This site is a well-organized source for learning grammar: http://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/
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五百字說華語系列 ( Speak Mandarin in Five Hundred Words )http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/interact/ebook/digitalpublish/MContent.asp?Lang=E
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soy un estudiante de China, Quizás poder ayudarte
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quizá ,puedo ayudarte ,soy de chino ,mientras querrá mejorar mi español

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