Would love to learn Mandarin online need suggestions

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3. This isn't what you asked

but a couple of years ago my elderly husband and my elderly self signed up for classes in Mandarin at our local community college, just to see if we were capable of learning anything new.

What a delight! Mandarin (and I assume other Chinese dialects) offered us so many insights into Chinese culture and the ways we thought of things profoundly differently from the Chinese--forward means past; backward means future, for instance--that that alone was worth struggling through the class. We had an excellent (Chinese) teacher who was very patient with the class and because he had lived in the US for many years understood the trouble we had understanding, say, family relationships, that this was one of the most rewarding language classes I've ever taken.

I hope you find a good course!

BTW we were able to learn to speak (and almost read) Mandarin after two semesters, but we instantly forgot everything. I hope you'll have the opportunity to use your new language.