For those who succeeded to get conversational at Chinese: what did it take?

Hi!

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I have started learning Mandarin several times. First time back in university for 2 semesters. Then started with various courses. When I say started it's stopping after *1 week*. Now I realize that's not a lot of time ;)

As a motivation I plan a holiday to China next year. It's not my goal to be perfectly conversational by then. It's more like the holiday should be a motivation for me to study small chucks daily, and don't stop until at least that holiday arrives. My hope is that by then I am so accustomed to learning it that I will continue.

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Now I'm considering learning with Michel Thomas method to get a basic overview of the language. Then Pimsleur + something else. Maybe also Glossika at some point but in the beginning this might be too hard. Regular Pimsleur is just 30 minutes a day which is doable and will keep me on track. But I suppose I need something more to understand grammer also on an intellectual level, so I might should follow another course.

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My main goal is to be able to talk to people, so all the methods mentioned above are mostly audio. But of course maybe learning some Hanzi would be better. I hope you guys can give me some tips or motivation.

Thanks!

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