How I did it: I took Mandarin as my minor in University. You must write every word a million times to remember it, and you must listen to recordings a million times to remember how to pronounce it. The grammar + sentence structures are incredibly easy, you can make a sentence after learning only a few words and they are all interchangeable. Listening to a lot of Chinese music, and watching a lot of Chinese movies helps a lot with the listening comprehension.

Lessons & tips: You need a lot of drive and patience for this since it's very difficult to look up a word that you don't know.

Resources: Integrated Chinese books are very good. The best of the kind.

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