Hi,
Chinese is the only language that I have tried to self-study so far. I am fluent in three European languages but I learned those in school, therefore Chinese has been my first encounter with language learning outside educational institutions. I am now a beginner B1. To get to that point, I have used different courses: Traditional courses (book+CDs), courses without books (Rosetta, Pimsleur), apps (duolingo, ChineseSkill etc.). Basically, all courses have the same structure: a list of lessons, each one consisting of a short dialog and some grammar notes. But that's how language courses are supposed to look like, right? Right?
Recently, a friend of mine started to learn French in a language school. Holy shit, it's amazing what study material they have. They gave him a book with dialogs, a vocabulary book, a grammar book, and a pronunciation book. Each book comes with several hours of mp3 files. Do you remember how often you have been told that Chinese pronunciation is difficult? In the French course, they have an entire book (200 pages) just on pronunciation. And this is just for level A1-A2 from one publisher! These books are well made. Grammar explanations, lot of small games, cartoons, dialogs, writing exercises, background information, etc. And they are not even expensive: all books together would be cheaper than a one-year membership of, e.g., Duolingo plus (not that you need it).
Compared to that, all existing Chinese learning courses and apps look extremely amateurish. How does it come that, after 30 years of public interest in the Chinese language, we don't have decent learning material?
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