I've been learning Mandarin with simplified characters on/off for some time now. I have the next 3 months quite free, in which I'd be happy to spend 2-3 hours a day on Chinese. Then I move to Qinghua for some work, and will surely take some Chinese classes for foreigners there. But want to get as much done as possible before then.
Right now, I know essentially all the HSK 2 words and 1/3-1/2 of the HSK 3 words. My writing and stroke order are good for the characters I know as I did quite a lot of this in high school. My pronunciation is good. My listening, or more precisely my ability to discern what people are saying in longer sentences is not so good. (Basically everything blurs together. Fun fact: my ability to discern what people are saying even in English is not very good. I have to ask people to repeat themselves more often than the average native English speaker).
I have Pleco downloaded, and I finished a Duolingo-like course called Learn Chinese Daily (with a panda image for its app) a while ago. Interested in other options.
One option that the internet advises against but I might do is go through lists of HSK words. I'm actually pretty good at lists (eg I used lists to learn complicated English words which nobody uses anymore for the SAT). Downside of this is it wouldn't help my not great listening at all.
There are a lot of suggestions of "watch Chinese TV shows" but the choice is overwhelming. I'm happy to torrent anything or use library genesis.
Ultimate goal is fluency or excellence by the end of the 2 years.
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