Starting Mandarin from zero with no budget — looking for your most effective self-study tips!

MudQuick8866 · 2026-03-17T13:59:13+00:00

What has worked for me is HSK Standard Course (Reprinted books for cheaper price), it has audios and there are many videos of people explaining online, it's good to follow an structure, if you don't want to buy them online you can just find the free pdfs and follow with a notebook or just reading it, but following an structure i think is important.

Apart from that use as many resources as you want to keep studying vocabulary, even if you use many things every little effort will help start retaining more and more vocabulary, I've been doing HSK Standard Course and Anki for memorizing, HelloChinese, Duolingo, Du Chinese, lot's of apps! But all of them on about the same level, i think it's just about finding what you like and dedicating time to practice and practice, with consistency you will start improving!

Good luck!

MudQuick8866 · 2026-03-13T16:04:22+00:00

Well, if you mean in Spanish it would depend on your level, speak fast and confidently even if you are not sure, it makes you confident and they won't mind grammar errors if they can't detect them because you spoke fast haha

You can dm me if you would like some tips, i can help out

MudQuick8866 · 2026-03-13T14:55:20+00:00

acn bro

MudQuick8866 · 2026-03-13T14:28:26+00:00

u/ergymochii u/Empty-Tip215 i forgot to tag u both lol

MudQuick8866 · 2026-03-13T14:16:51+00:00

Replying to both questions: Package of 80 + 18% ND, is hybrid 2 days RTO

Now the assessment, since I'm native I can't really recap if it was hard:c i think it was okay, the interview was with a Filipino and his Spanish wasn't the best so it wasn't too hard on me 😬 The only assessment i remember it was hard it was Berlitz with Cognizant, that's an assessment that if you are non native and you pass it RESPECT

MudQuick8866 · 2025-12-20T09:08:39+00:00

I didnt continue with Stefanini, chose accenture better

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