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If you really want to learn chinese use du chinese it is great for learn how to read a recognize characters. It actually has the hsk levels (which is how china grades the difficulty if certain characters), flashcards, audio of how to say the word, and a variety of lessons. Its very useful and its easy itll give you notifactions every day at the same time for one lesson for you to take. It your interested: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.sinamon.duchinese
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.sinamon.duchinese And https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pleco.chinesesystem
The first one is good and to start learning, plenty of short stories & conversation that can pressed to show more info (pin yin pronunciation, meaning, etc)
The second is useful for translating your current page to see what Chinese characters are showing, not perfect but close.
I'm using these 2 daily for my own practice and learning. Good luck!!
Hi, this is the Du Chinese team! Last time we posted here a lot of people were asking about an Android version, so we spent the last month developing it. You can get it directly from Google Play here. iPhone version available here.
We also recently start a new blog here which has interactive sentences similar to the app itself. If it sounds interesting, please check it out.
Please let us know if you have any questions or suggestions!
edit: added iPhone link
Most of the good methods are already listed (Anki, ChinesePod), so the only method that I can suggest is watching movies, dramas, or shows. Don't be afraid to be shocked when you start to consume Chinese media; instead, try to watch some even if you can't understand most of it yet. It helps to ease your listening skills over time. Take note, however, that watching Chinese media will only serve as a complement to your structured listening exercises. You'll still have to stick with the exercises listed here (especially the Anki deck), then watch media to challenge or reinforce your learning.
Youku is kind of like the Chinese youtube. You can watch some drama, reality shows, game shows, news snippets.
CCTV News has some news videos with dialogue. Go and have a search.
If you're on android, Du Chinese and Read Chinese, Learn Chinese both have the option of playing the audio recording of an article. It's a good way to practice your sentences and sentence structure because it's in written format, along with the pinyin and the English translations (if you hover over the words). A good way to practice with these is playing the audio first, try to decipher as much as you can, then look at the written article and see what you missed.
If you go to youtube, there are also a couple of listening exercises if you search for keywords such as "chinese conversation". The FluentU Chinese channel has loads of playlists with conversations in different scenarios, most are just 30 seconds to 1 minute long.
As for movies, I can send you a link. It might be considered copyright violations if I post it here, so I'll just PM you. You can start with some Jackie Chan films, such as Little Big Soldier. I found that Little Big Soldier's vocab is a bit understandable, and I can catch some of the dialogues.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRL02spq3g6bkZxqlUlMSkYnq-I7OMw_Q I was using this one while trying to be more fluent in Shanghai... Not the perfect one but quite useful if you want to be more fluent
Here are some other I have been using:
https://www.thechairmansbao.com/ - was initially free, now it is paid
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdwdSGQsSbcapDmODtOr58g
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.sinamon.duchinese
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inkren.skritter.chinese
can't remember the others I have used, but may add more or send you a DM in case I can remember...
Feel free to DM me, both in English and Chinese, in case you have questions to ask... I am not Chinese, but I completely understand "fearing of speaking Chinese"
加油！