Reddit is a great place to go for all kinds of information, and learning Mandarin is no different. Here are some of my favourite links, listed in no particular order:

r/chineselanguage:

  • 153k members
  • People posting generally useful questions and posts get a bunch of responses
  • Seems not to have too much spam in it at all
  • Really great resource 10/10
  • Here is a great link where people are describing how much effort they have put into learning Mandarin and the various approaches they have taken (note: this is very different vs. the Polygloat community). One of the responses is similar to my own experience, taking years studying Pinyin, then picking up characters, building flashcards, and trying online resource to get more conversational learning.
How did you learn Mandarin?
byu/Kavrad inChineseLanguage

r/China:

  • 405k members
  • subreddit covering Chinese news, but not language
  • A real mix of things here, just news and memes about China from all sides of the spectrum (pro-China and anti-China). Not a bad place to just gauge the various discourse going on.

r/Chinalife:

  • 10k members
  • An expat subreddit which explores the experiences of foreigners living in China. Worth following if you have any aspirations to relocate to China ever (though the current pandemic experiences of foreigners in China would suggest maybe holding off on near terms plans to do so …. at least for a while)
  • Seems really useful and helpful despite the low subscriber count

r/learnmandarin:

  • 8.5k members
  • Really terrible
  • Most of this is spam youtube videos by people looking to sell you lessons or a system.
  • askandychinese is spamming the heck out of this, maybe single handedly destroying a potentially useful subreddit. I’ll give one of his videos a link here becuase there is no evidence anyone anywhere is paying any attention to him, so I hope he reads this and leaves a comment! I’ve linked his Patreon above, but if you really want to give someone money on a recurring basis let me know and I’ll send you my bitcoin address!

r/Sino:

  • 84.5k members
  • Really useful news about china and stats and interesting stuff. A bit of a positive spin on everything, seemingly focusing on the fact that china is bigger and better and newer and faster, but generally good information as long as you make sure you aren’t slowly being influenced.

r/Chinanews:

  • This is a thread which ties together posts flagged as being China News. presents all spectrum of viewpoint with some videos indicating human rights abuses and others which are very promotion in nature