Shit's hard, yo.
the difficulty is front-loaded due to the complexity of tones, but it really speeds up later on due to the simplicity of the grammar
Yo there's like, four different ways to pronounce every word and they all mean something different.
I can say thank you though😎
I technically grew up bilingual, but learned trad + zhuyin. I can more or less read simplified but not even slightly confident writing it.... also as a nerd I'm more fluent in classical prose than modern lingo, lol
My dream is to become fluent in both Chinese and Spanish. I'm currently learning Spanish though, since it's more immediately useful in the US.
It would be pretty fuckin cool to be able to talk to like 1/3 of people on Earth.
not yet, but I think I will, eventually
What ressources do you use ?
those sheets with 20 boxes and the first character is filled in and you have to write it 19 times, and flash cards, are both helpful
I studied it in college 10 years ago and got ground up in workplaces that had no use. Starting to get it back since I work for a Chinese family now.
Idk if anyone wants to like.practice with each other or smtn I'm down
Whatever the best one is.
Seriously though Japan is an underrated destination for leftists. It's basically a lib paradise, like they've got FDR's reanimated head in a jar and have been letting him call the shots for the last half-century or so.
I already had some background with Russian so I decided to focus on that instead of Chinese. I'm hoping the Belt and Road brings positive changes to Russia by the time I have to move there.
