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  • Same, I’m basically tone deaf and just assumed that Mandarin wouldn’t be accessible to me. But then I finally decided to give it a go, and turned out to not be much of an issue at all. I also find that it’s easier to remember the tones in a context of a sentence. It’s a lot like when you put an accent on different words when you speak English, so you can just memorize the cadence of the sentence, and you’ll start learning the tones implicitly.


  • That’s the approach I took as well. For the first year, I just stuck with pinyin, and then once I got comfortable enough conversationally, I started making some effort to learn the characters. I find drawing them out really helps you memorize them so you can recognize them later, so even if you’re going to write using pinyin, practising writing is still useful. And it does get easier, because there is a fixed set of symbols that all the characters are composed of. So, once you learn the first batch, it only gets easier from there. But yeah, putting that off is the correct call.