languagelearning

I did end up impulse buying it - figured it's $25 lol. Haven't really gotten into it yet, but I'll share my initial impressions.

Like others have said, any serious learning will need to include talking to people who know the language. I had some experience learning Mandarin in a class as a teenager for about 2 years and I'm using this mostly as an edutainment product to brush up on some basics. I'll probably enroll in a similar class to the one I was in when I was younger when I have the time/money.

I would compare this to the random Excel learning modules you can take at some office jobs, if you've seen anything like that. You get a series of videos covering different topics. I haven't engaged with this enough to get to the Homework sections - but I'm guessing it's just some kind of multiple choice questionnaire. There's obviously no actual interaction with the teachers, like you would have with an online class through a university or other type of school.

Overall - there's probably worse things that you could spend $25 on, but this alone isn't going to teach you Chinese. The retail prices they list are absurd, though ($100 per module!!!!). No idea what the cultural learning modules are like, but they have one about lol - I don't think it's included in the Humble Bundle so I can't check how it may or may not be.