App to start learning Chinese, for student that already knows Japanese (2500 kanji)

Hi everybody! Using the search function I've already found a lot of discussions about Chinese teaching apps, so I'm sorry that I have to create another one, but I hope it'll be helpful for other Japanese learners who want to make the switch!

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So, like I said in the title, I already know Japanese at an intermediate-advanced level (for those who know about this stuff, more or less between JLPT N2 and N1). My reading is better than my listening/speaking, and I know around 2500 kanji and maybe 10000 words. By now I've been studying for years, so I'm pretty familiar with the whole language-learning toolkit: anki, XXXpod (JapanesePod in my case), mnemonics to learn the characters, language partners and so on and so forth.

In the past I also tried to learn Vietnamese, a six tones language, so I'm somewhat familiar with tones - not that I can pronounce or recognize them well, but at least I know what they are :D.

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So, I'd like to start learning Mandarin, but for the next several months I don't have time to really go down the self-study rabbit hole: No heavy duty SRSing, immersion, textbook studying, gathering material etc.

That's why I want to find a nice app for Android or iOS to start learning the basics in a relaxed way, possibly one that covers a little of everything (grammar, pronunciation, listening etc.) so that I don't have to waste time jumping from one resource to the other.

At the same time, I'd like to avoid too much focus on memorizing the characters, since I know already a lot of the traditional japanese ones and I've developed a good method to study new ones through the radicals.

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So, TL,DR: a nice app to start studying Mandarin, one that covers all the areas (listening, grammar, tones and so on) but doesn't put more focus than necessary on the characters, since I already know 2500 Japanese kanji. Oh, and possibly not too gamified to appeal to language learning beginners: Chinese would be my 3th foreign language, so it's fine if the app ramps up the difficulty quickly and doesn't pamper you too much.

Paid apps are fine also!

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Thanks to anyone that took the time to read, and sorry for the length!

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