I have been doing Duolingo exercises for a few days now, but some good books, videos, apps or websites would help me out. My tone pronunciation is a complete mess.
The Leader(Karl Marx cartoon) is on youtube w/ english captions
for free? I’m not as familiar, but my best guess would be for you to see if you could check out some chinese learning textbooks from the library. Chinese Zero to Hero has a free pronunciation course. I’m a huge fan of their HSK courses as well but those are paid. they get bonus points for the cultural revolution imagery in the courses. Hello Chinese is a lot better than Duolingo IMO, and there’s a free version of the app. Pleco is a great free dictionary resource. Anki is another great free resource for drilling vocab. I think DuChinese has some good stuff for free as well. Best of luck! It’s a long road. I know this anathema to lemmygrad, but the chinese language subreddit has really good posts about this sort of thing as well.
Check out Coursera, solid essential Mandarin course for free spanning several weeks that was good on tone work.
Technically not free, but the Confucius Institute uses the 7-volume “New Practical Chinese Reader” textbooks that are as free as books can get on libgen.
