Mandarin Blueprint is a great course and worth the money
Mandarin Blueprint is a great course for learning Chinese language based on characters. Initially I was skeptical, but the proposed and taught method (learning Chinese characters using memory palace technique) works amazingly (both efficient and effective). After struggling quite some years (inconsistently) learning Chinese, this (MB Blueprint Pro) was the best "investment" decision in my Chinese learning career (both time/effort & money). Besides the main course (Mandarin Blueprint), the other courses (so far I tried Pronunciation Mastery, Mandarin Speaking Kickstarter and The Phrase Vault) Since Chinese is so different from all European Languages you still need however some patience to gain the expected results (fluency in Chinese including the capability to speak), but the teaching method and the course contents are really good. By the time of this review I am in level 37 of the Blueprint after around 50 days full time learning (~600 characters learned). You can also try out the Mandarin Blueprint Lite (~260 characters in total) for free and see, if the method also works for you...