You don't need to know how to hand write all your Hanzi, but you should definitely learn to recognize them. Like there are so many words that I only really know half the characters in, but that's enough to remember the whole word from context.
Computers make writing using pinyin very easy, but you still need to know which characters to pick (I type "jiao" and get a big list to pick from. Did I want 叫 or 角?)
My main source of learning other than HelloChinese has been talking with Chinese people on HelloTalk. HelloChinese provides the grammar and some vocabulary to work with, HelloTalk lets me practice and expand on it. I'll take a lesson I learned recently, make a post using those grammar structures and maybe some words I have to look up on google translate, and native speakers correct me. You kind of need to start at a baseline with that though, since it's more of a practice tool than lessons.
I also like to listen to music, but most of the bands I like are from Taiwan and traditional characters are still way hard for me.
I tried Clozemaster again here a month or two ago and it's really boosted my character recognition and general "how does this word fit within a sentence". I also started with HelloChinese (still use it) but also some Anki and HelloTalk/HiNative. There were more than 0 people on HelloTalk that seemed interested in romantic interactions though which kinda put me off it.
Really? Usually the ratios are significantly in the favour of English speakers learning Chinese, since there are more Chinese speakers who want to practice English.
You don't need to know how to hand write all your Hanzi, but you should definitely learn to recognize them. Like there are so many words that I only really know half the characters in, but that's enough to remember the whole word from context. Computers make writing using pinyin very easy, but you still need to know which characters to pick (I type "jiao" and get a big list to pick from. Did I want 叫 or 角?)
My main source of learning other than HelloChinese has been talking with Chinese people on HelloTalk. HelloChinese provides the grammar and some vocabulary to work with, HelloTalk lets me practice and expand on it. I'll take a lesson I learned recently, make a post using those grammar structures and maybe some words I have to look up on google translate, and native speakers correct me. You kind of need to start at a baseline with that though, since it's more of a practice tool than lessons.
I also like to listen to music, but most of the bands I like are from Taiwan and traditional characters are still way hard for me.
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Definitely one of my fav Chinese provinces. Hoping to visit, maybe next summer.
chinese nationalists in taiwan are extremely rare
I tried Clozemaster again here a month or two ago and it's really boosted my character recognition and general "how does this word fit within a sentence". I also started with HelloChinese (still use it) but also some Anki and HelloTalk/HiNative. There were more than 0 people on HelloTalk that seemed interested in romantic interactions though which kinda put me off it.
My first HelloTalk chat was with a drunk PLA soldier, 2am after the dragon boat festival, who kept trying to convince me to move to Malaysia with him.
Why Malaysia? hah
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Really? Usually the ratios are significantly in the favour of English speakers learning Chinese, since there are more Chinese speakers who want to practice English.
Every time I open the app it's like my first week on Grindr - everyone is hitting me up for help with their English.
And here I thought Grindr was a dating app.
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