i’m not really fluent so i just lurk and translate anything i don’t know. most of the time i’ll just browse zhihu or baidu and find new terms. sometimes i’ll find stuff that i wouldn’t on english sites. it’s also become my go to “immersion” study method.
i actually set up a goal for myself yesterday, to start learning chinese characters by browsing bilibili (now that youtube is not allowing adblock). I am planning to learn 2-3 characters a day and browse through bilibili trying to identify the characters and with time i may be able to translate video titles and comments.
This sounds like a rather inefficient way of learning the language.
To each their own, but for me taking small daily steps works.
Small daily steps is a good idea but I don’t think learning character by character is a good way to go about it. If it’s fun for you then that’s fine but just know you won’t make much progress understanding the meaning.
Wechat is good for vegging out. I find it’s far more international than Western social media. I routinely see shorts from all over the world, Central Asia, Europe, Africa, East Asia .
