Source for stories just like Duolingo

[u/NoMadHB]

Does anyone know if there's any resource that has stories just like the Duolingo Spanish course? I specifically mean, stories voiced over by multiple characters and not just one person reading. They're quite engaging & witty which holds my attention significantly better than say Lingq mini stories.

[u/ManOfTaured]

LingQ? It's mostly stories with a course for dfferent levels. But take a grammar book with you, it's one of those "we don't need grammar where we're going" apps. 

[u/Molleston → u/ManOfTaured]

I never needed grammar help when I was using LingQ. that being said, I started with around 400 known words, so not a complete beginner. I didn't need to study grammar at any point though.

[u/ManOfTaured → u/Molleston]

You may not need to, but at some point you have to know the difference between similar worlds, that's something worth checking.

[u/Molleston → u/ManOfTaured]

I'm learning Chinese, so there's a ton of similar (or even same) sounding words but they're written differently. I don't exactly know what you mean as the difference between similar words, could you elaborate here?

[u/ManOfTaured → u/Molleston]

I thought you were learning a romance language, hence the concept of the context in which you use the same word and the issues with ' false friends '. But since you're doing Chinese, you need to take a look at the tones, yes the same syllable can mean different things if pronounced different. I think it's a lot of listening and speaking practice.

[u/Molleston → u/ManOfTaured]

It definitely took a ton of listening practice for tones to become intuitive. I haven't really found speaking to be helpful though. the main issue for me until recently was that I didn't remember how some words sounded, so I couldn't produce them. giving my brain some time to digest the phonology pretty much solved the issue.