Enthusiasm’s there, as is lots of learning options... one thing still missing, and this is BIG... no one to practice speaking with. Still working on that, so in the meantime have been focusing mainly on comprehension, where working on several different methods at the same time has been of great help.
For me one of the things about learning Mandarin is that most of it doesn’t immediately click or even make much sense. Only after days, weeks, and even months of trying to wrap my head around the ins and outs, does some of the haze finally start to clear. It must come to you, in it’s own way, in it’s own time. Thus far my experience has been, getting fed different concepts, from different angles, at different times really seems to help with locking this stuff in. For example, after blindly memorizing some certain word orders listening to Learn in your car Chinese, when those same word orders came into play listening to Pimsleur I was already familiar enough with the syntax to thus be able to get a good intellectual grasp of what I had just learned AGAIN. In a nutshell, once I’ve blundered through one concepts on one of the paths I’ve been following, that same concept becomes much easier when it appears in another path.
Redundancy from different perspectives equals comprehension.
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