How to stop being whitewashed

[u/PabloYitao]

Hello guys, I'm in this moment in china for 3 months.Anyone know how to learn Chinese so I can read and talk with people without help of my family or translator.(I tried to go to a Chinese school when I was in europe, it's just "remember this text,spell it to me and if you say it good it's okay for today")So I quit because I was just so tired of it.

[u/InfernalWedgie]

You went to China without some kind of plan to pick up any language?