• Orcocracy [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    I've been thinking that I should sign up for some Mandarin lessons so that I can talk with people who are optimistic about the future.

    • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      我是学中国。 我是不好.

      I butchered that but we have a com and posts with great resources and it is fun, and not as hard as you'd think to learn the most common language on earth.

      • TheOwlReturns [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Having a lot of fun with the duolingo course myself! It is such a vast language, a lot of it makes great sense though, much more so than English.

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        You said you're studying china (the country) in the first sentence. 汉语 are the characters for chinese (the language). EDIT: I was wrong! :sadness:

        • TeethOrCoat [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          Ahem, studying/reading = 读

          学 = learn

          What @FidelCashflow said was he was learning China. If he said 中文 instead of 中国, he would be right but only partially since the sentence has another mistake at 是.

              • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                I didn't input anything close to correct, so no. the default Samsung one on my phone. I sometimes have trouble finding the right character, but I assume that is just inexperience and not having a proper grasp of it's predictive system.

        • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          both, once we get good enough we gotta know where to defect to. Climate in the northwest suits me and their and some nice lower tier cites that might still have white monkey jobs by the time I would be able to jump ship.