My Chinese skill is not great (HSK3 - 4). Hopefully some more skilled (or fluent) users can participate.
The Chinese language learning communities on other social media sites such as on Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube can be tiresome. Endless joking about how supposedly difficult the language is, stale memes about measure words, and a huge focus on just one variety (Taiwan province’s dialect).
Hopefully we can focus on genuine learning in a helpful and positive way :)
I think having a list of useful tools would be a nice start, I’ve been using Character Pop and Hanzicraft while learning hanzi, and also Jisho to search for some even though it is a Japanese dictionary since it has a useful tool to search for characters based on their compositions.
As a sidebar, or as a pinned post?
I think the best would be to link to a post on the sidebar with software/tools recommendations.
You might want to check out pleco for looking up characters, I’m so fond of it I set up the windows subsystem for Android on both my computers so I could sideload the app to them. It has several useful ways for searching characters
Unlike others I am not actively studying Chinese. However I would love to participate in discussion and participate in immersive activities in order to brush off the rust. It’s a bit of a hassle but I think it would be nice if we all tried our best to post in both English as well as Chinese.
我跟大家有点不一样，现在没有正式的学中文。可是我希望能够跟大家一块用英文和中文来讨论。虽然这样有点麻烦可是我觉得这种双语练习是最有用的。
好耶，但是一般中国人说话很飘的，喜欢用一些翻译软件翻不出来的词，也喜欢奇奇怪怪的缩写喔。如果都能看懂简直是yyds呢，不过像我上面那样说话就有点像yygq了喔~
