Hacker News with Generative AI: Mandarin

How to Pronounce Chinese Names a Little Better (jacko.io)
Mainland China uses the pinyin system to write Mandarin words and names with English letters.
12 Months of Mandarin (isaak.net)
Estimates for achieving intermediate fluency in Mandarin Chinese range up to spending years and around 4000 total hours (2,200h classroom hours, 1,800 outside). I did it in 1500 hours total and less than a year.