Conclusion: It depends on the proficiency of each person and his or her own mother tongue what kind of educational materials are recommendable.
If you are a native speaker of English who want to study Chinese, you should start studying from practicing writing Chinese characters.
Related contents:
1. Note 134 How to learn foreign languages
2. Note 130 Which language is recommendable to broadcast on YouTube?
3. Note 062 What is necessary to get higher proficiency of English?
4. The video version of this episode:
[Note 140] Recommendable education materials for learning foreign languages
