Mandarin Chinese beginner to master

Something you need to know before starting to learn Mandarin:

* There are 70,000 different Chinese Characters, including Simplified Hanzi, Traditional Hanzi, Japanese Kanji, Korean Hanja. But only 5,000 of the simplest are currently used in China.
* There is no grammatical case, number and gender in Chinese Grammar, no difference between a word and a phrase.
* Speaking is much easier than writing, but writing is much more fun once you start.
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