Hi,
I've tried duolingo for about 2 months straight and all I know how to say is rice, american, italian, english, water and some other useless stuff, it doesn't even teach you to write or anything like that. It sucks.
I know the best way to learn a language is to go to a teacher or something, but I prefer not to do that and learn it online.
It will probably be harder for me since my native language is not english and I doubt there's lessons or something online for mandarin in my native language, but I'm willing to try, I know english pretty well.
Possibly but writing in Chinese is much more convoluted than many other languages thanks to stroke order and the like so I'd still say youd be way better off replacing it with simply a bunch of comprehensible input. Read loads of kids books/books for beginners and watch a bunch of cartoons/shows with simple language in chinese with subtitles.
Ok thanks for the tips!