I have been learning Mandarin Chinese…
I have been learning Mandarin Chinese for almost three years and even I made progress and could start basic communication in restaurants and hotels etc. I still had a hard time reading, memorising the characters and thus really getting to the level of fluency that I actually want. I used a mix of some language learning app, self made flashcards and story reading (always with additional Pinyin which made my eyes automatically jump to the "familiar" latin letters). One day I came across the Mandarin Blueprint method and in the beginning I thought this movie memorisation method is a little strange and I don't want to do it. So I forgot about it and continues brute forcing characters in my brain. But after some more frustrating months I remembered this method again and thought to myself "ok just try it". So I did and at the beginning I was really struggling with this method and using my brain like this. But with more and more progress it suddenly made sense to me. Characters I hade been struggling with for months suddenly wer now in my memory without any issue with the correct pronunciation. Thanks to the Mandarin Blueprint team. It is really worth to give it a try. If you looking for fun and efficient way to learn or improve your Chinese - just do it.