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Master Mandarin Fast: A Simple, Effective Method Using Duolingo, Anki, and Essential Vocabulary

Are you ready to start learning Mandarin but feeling overwhelmed by where to begin? Don’t worry—I’ve got you covered! After experimenting with various methods, I’ve developed a straightforward and efficient approach that combines the power of Duolingo, Anki, and essential vocabulary to help you start speaking and understanding Mandarin quickly. Here’s how it works and why it’s effective: 1. Why Start with Duolingo? Duolingo is a fantastic tool for beginners. It’s free, easy to use, and provides a structured way to learn basic vocabulary, grammar, and sentence structures. The gamified approach keeps you motivated, and the bite-sized lessons make it easy to fit learning into your daily routine. While Duolingo alone won’t make you fluent, it’s an excellent starting point to build a foundation in Mandarin. 2. Supercharge Your Learning with Anki Once you’ve started learning with Duolingo, the next step is to reinforce and retain what you’ve learned. This is where Anki comes in. Anki is ...
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Learning Chinese/Mandarin with subtitles - day 0

I decided today learning Mandarin with subtitles, using Anki, and its addon Watch Foreign Language Movies with Anki, with the help of some others tools, such as:
- Automatic Language-Agnostic Subtitle Synchronization - Alas: to help synchronizing the subtitles
- Subtitle tools: to make pinyin subtitles and/or merge two subtitles in one (in case it is two or more cds in one file)
- Traditional (Complex) Chinese and Simplified Chinese Conversion: sometimes I can find only Traditional Chinese subtitle. In this case, I can convert it to simplified Chinese (or vice-versa if you prefer)

The idea is simple, just take a movie, download the target subtitle (and your translation) from opensubittles.org and/or zimuku*.

* Observe that I do understanding nothing in Mandarin, so when I search for subtitles on zimuku, I use the google translate site tool.

For now, I took two movies: To live (1994) an Ip Man (2008). But I'm going to start with the first, because I'm not sure if Ip Man is Mandarin or Cantonese, because I do not have any knowledge to identify the difference, and the dialogues I analyze seems not to match the subtitles.

I'll give this a try for 30 days and blog here to let you know the results. Maybe 30 days is not enough to start learning, but we will see to where it can leave me.
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