hellochinese is a good starting point. it took me a while to finish all of the lessons on there. after you've got a decent handle on a few characters you can start using duchinese, which is focused on reading and flashcards but you can also listen to the lessons for listening practice. at this point aside from occasionally consuming media in chinese duchinese is my only practice, i do flashcards every day. if it's an option you should also look into tutors or classes in your area because learning all on your own is obviously pretty tough.
i've been learning on my own on and off for about 4 years now and i'm still pretty ass. i practically never get the chance to practice speaking so i know i am embarrassingly bad at that. i'm halfway decent at reading and writing - i know maybe around 1000 words - but my listening skills, like my speaking skills, are pretty far behind. language learning is an unending process of the "it's so over/we're so back" cycle so it can be easy to become demoralized if you like try to watch a kids show and barely understand anything, even after learning for years, it's normal but try to stick to it.
learning to write by hand/with a pen will take a long time but i am told that it will also make it easier to learn new characters as you get better at it. also, if you don't know how to write by hand, you won't know the common shorthand tricks that people will use when writing by hand so reading others' handwriting will be a lot harder. i have spent no time except the occasional popup in hellochinese learning handwriting and i could only write maybe 10 of the characters i know, the rest i need to use pinyin to type. i also have a very hard time reading handwritten stuff but since i'm in america and don't expect to go to china anytime soon that's not a huge deal.
it's a fun language. it's not impossible to learn but it is probably harder to learn than most euro languages. the grammar is pretty easy, at least to start with, which is nice.
edit: hellotalk is a language-exchange app where you can read posts in english from people in china learning it and post in chinese and get criticism. i think you can also find tutors on the app. you can message people and do direct language exchange that way. i found it was kind of fun but ultimately not too useful because it wasn't structured. italki is an app people use to find tutors online but i haven't used it since i tend to do pretty bad at zoom (etc) classes/lessons
people have said that [insert party] will never win another election again forever in this country. people said that reps would never win again after obama in '08 and before hillary lost in 2016 (lmao). after the dems didn't totally shit the bed in the midterms in 2022 people were saying it. after 4 years of trump and his cabinet stumbling around breaking things and being annoying in the news every day the dems will be looking a lot better to the average voter than they do in the immediate aftermath of 4 years of brandon
in a major city, yes. the two main fires burning in LA right now have destroyed around 10,000 structures combined and no fires have done nearly that much damage to a major city in decades. a fire in 2018 destroyed 18,000 buildings and practically the entire town of paradise but that was far from any big cities. in terms of area though 29,000 acres probably wouldn't even crack the top 50 biggest wildfires in california history, the biggest one burned over a million acres in a rural part of the state back in 2020
chuds have been mad about the smelt for at least a decade now in california. also the smelt that they get mad about lives in the Delta up near sacramento, 400 or so miles away from the current fire
even if it were true - sorry that messaging effectively is necessary if you want to win an election dumbass! not "working families" fault you and your proxies at CNN or whatever can't/won't do it!
The Red Wars was one that tried to update the game to a WWII ish setting and it was fun but, as expected, incredibly janky. nova aetas was another one that was an era-update mod like that one put it in a sort of early modern/renaissance era, with colonization, religion, building, and other new features, i think their reach exceeded their grasp but it was fun and interesting. haven't played warband in quite a while now, maybe i ought to give it a go again
whether or not it's musk invoking HIPAA like that is one of my favorite dumb guy things that crops up occasionally. yeah it's actually illegal to speculate about someone else's health
there does seem to be a difference in scale between SK and the rest of east asia as far as this stuff goes though right? did it because of cult ties but i don't think that abe was actually a member of the moonies. 2 of the last 3 presidents being directly influenced by mystics isn't the kind of thing that you hear about coming from other countries in the region
South Korean media reporting growing concerns about the extent of alleged shamanistic and fortune-telling influences within President Yoon's administration, with multiple spiritual advisers allegedly operating at different levels of power.
Korea's martial law probe has uncovered extraordinary meetings at a burger joint involving a former military commander who, after being dishonourably discharged, was found to be living in a fortune-telling shop where he allegedly practiced divination alongside other shamans.
what is it that makes south korea such fertile ground for shamans and mystics?
the 5-7 minute part of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles from John Candy listening to Ray Charles to the car lighting on fire is among the funniest segments ever put to celluloid. john candy da god
did it because of cult ties but i don't think that abe was actually a member of the moonies. 2 of the last 3 presidents being directly influenced by mystics isn't the kind of thing that you hear about coming from other countries in the region
hellochinese is a good starting point. it took me a while to finish all of the lessons on there. after you've got a decent handle on a few characters you can start using duchinese, which is focused on reading and flashcards but you can also listen to the lessons for listening practice. at this point aside from occasionally consuming media in chinese duchinese is my only practice, i do flashcards every day. if it's an option you should also look into tutors or classes in your area because learning all on your own is obviously pretty tough.
i've been learning on my own on and off for about 4 years now and i'm still pretty ass. i practically never get the chance to practice speaking so i know i am embarrassingly bad at that. i'm halfway decent at reading and writing - i know maybe around 1000 words - but my listening skills, like my speaking skills, are pretty far behind. language learning is an unending process of the "it's so over/we're so back" cycle so it can be easy to become demoralized if you like try to watch a kids show and barely understand anything, even after learning for years, it's normal but try to stick to it.
learning to write by hand/with a pen will take a long time but i am told that it will also make it easier to learn new characters as you get better at it. also, if you don't know how to write by hand, you won't know the common shorthand tricks that people will use when writing by hand so reading others' handwriting will be a lot harder. i have spent no time except the occasional popup in hellochinese learning handwriting and i could only write maybe 10 of the characters i know, the rest i need to use pinyin to type. i also have a very hard time reading handwritten stuff but since i'm in america and don't expect to go to china anytime soon that's not a huge deal.
it's a fun language. it's not impossible to learn but it is probably harder to learn than most euro languages. the grammar is pretty easy, at least to start with, which is nice.
edit: hellotalk is a language-exchange app where you can read posts in english from people in china learning it and post in chinese and get criticism. i think you can also find tutors on the app. you can message people and do direct language exchange that way. i found it was kind of fun but ultimately not too useful because it wasn't structured. italki is an app people use to find tutors online but i haven't used it since i tend to do pretty bad at zoom (etc) classes/lessons