I am an Amerikkan weighing my options on where to flee to. China is an option and i was wondering how much mandarin to learn to get into the country, where I can continue my education in the language there (because the best place to learn a new language is a country that speaks it) if i should be fluent before i move there, that's fine too. i would do literally anything to leave this shithole. TIA comrades and good day.

  • pooh [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    AFAIK knowing Mandarin doesn't matter as much as your reason for going, and you would need a specific reason. I think generally it would need to be for work, study, or family. For work you'd need a company to hire you, study you'd need to be accepted to a Chinese university, and family you would pretty much need to be at least Chinese descent and have family in China. So, going there with the intent to stay long term wouldn't be all that easy unless you had a verified way in. I've heard a lot of people previously were able to move there to teach English, and it was pretty easy to get one of those jobs, but I'm not sure if they're still doing this at the level they were previously. Would be worth checking out at least.