u/razorchick12

We are planning to fly in to Vegas from Eastern time, so we are gaining 3hrs.

We plan to fly in Thursday, drove to DVNP, see the sunrise Friday and do a hike or two in DVNP, then head back to Vegas for Friday Night/Saturday Night in Las Vegas.

Any recommendations on where we should watch the sunrise and what hikes we should do? I'm debating on 2 hikes or 1 hike and driving tour. Open for suggestions.

Looking for something similar to NPR News Now but in Chinese.

Basically, it's a 5 min podcast with the highlight real in world news.

Basically, I am doing Pimsleur from my library (so, fo free) and it is wonderful. Gets some great foundational knowledge that you can then build on elsewhere.

My library had Mandarin (TL) lesson 1-75. I still haven't finished it yet, but those 75 lessons are taking me about 6 months with 5 days per week of practice bc some are pretty difficult. I am also doing anki for vocab and I have a weekly italki session, so it is a tool, not the whole solution.

Looking at the app, which takes Mandarin to 150, and, offers Spanish and Arabic (other languages that I have been wanting to learn)-- I see the lifetime for all languages regularly goes on sale for ~$480. Then, my Amex has an offer of spend $20 on Pimsleur, get $20 back. THEN, my Amex has another offer where if you purchase through their portal, you get 3% back. All off these are stackable. So my total cost could be $445 for the entire thing. I wanted to post this in case anyone is also looking at buying, want you to know about potential deals.

I am wondering if anyone else has any tips/tricks/known prices that they can help a homie out for discounting the price. I am likely going to buy when I finish 1-75, but figured it was a good opportunity to ask here because someone may have a better solution than me.

This will be Tuesday, so Logan Pass is closed but you can get up it pretty far to do a few trails.

I was doing individual word cards for a language, this was great while I was a true beginner.

I am now low intermediate and I am converting my cards to various sentence cards.

So its not exactly 1 for 1, though I am making sure all my vocab is finding its way to the new cards so I don't lose it.

I guess I just don't really know how lapses/suspending works. I do want to potentially turn cards back on if I need it.

Like if I have 10 or so sentences that I want to turn into cards bc I experience the sentences irl, what can I use to click a button and automatically get audio linked to a card and saved in a file so I can import to Anki?

Basically the title.

I have access to the CDs through my local library (Lessons 1-3A&B, aka free), I have been doing various study methods for about 3y for Mandarin. I believe I am performing at an HSK 5 level for reading/writing, but I also think I am performing at HSK 1-2 in speaking and I am looking for something that can help improve my speaking.

I am definitely a choppy speaker, but pretty happy with the progress I have made in 3y.

Usually when I hear a sentence, I repeat it back. I have many anki cards with sentences + audio.

Lately, I've been taping the anki card so the audio plays as I am also trying to read the sentence to test my cadence and I am VERY off when compared to normal speakers.

At the very least, it's a way to make the easier cards more interesting.

But I am curious-- is there any benefit to doing this/working on cadence?