Decided To Learn Chinese

[SonOfZeus]

Hello guys. This is my first post. So I'll jump righ into it...

As much as I would like, I won't be able to travel to the holy lands of SEA in the near future, due to some personal complications. I will have to compensate with small eurocuck trips, in order break monotony of everyday life.

Thus, I've decided to start studying chinese (mandarin) in preparation for my campaign to the East. At first, I wanted to give japanese a shot, but after searching through forum posts and taking into consideration the opinions of notable users, I've decided to try chinese. I plan on starting my studies based on free online resources ( provided by the user @Rance ), and after I exhaust those I'll probably have to attend a language school. If I'm lucky though, it's highly likely that the local university will resume its collaboration with a chinese institute and I'll be able to take lessons for free from professors associated with beijing university.

I am currently fluent in greek (native), english (C2 level) and french (C1 level), though I haven't used the last one in ages. If I ever decide to unlock the LatAm domain of geomaxia, I think spanish will be a breeze.

What are your thoughts about my plan? I believe it will allow me to reap better results among chinese speaking populations.

 

[Orientalist]

Nothing you do in a language school will compare to consistent intensive immersion, especially for something as semantically ambiguous/polysemic as Mandarin. Plus they'll probably make you physically write the characters, fuck that 那个

 

[Mafumofu]

read and watch shit and mine anki

 

[SonOfZeus]

Nothing you do in a language school will compare to consistent intensive immersion, especially for something as semantically ambiguous/polysemic as Mandarin. Plus they'll probably make you physically write the characters, fuck that 那个

Since I don't live in China I'll do my best by consuming chinese content of different kinds and use apps to speak with chinese people, in order to achieve a sufficient level of immersion. Do you think writting won't help me get used to and learn the ideograms faster?

 

[SonOfZeus]

read and watch shit and mine anki

Thanks for the tips. I'll definitely give flashcards a shot.

 

[Orientalist]

Since I don't live in China I'll do my best by consuming chinese content of different kinds and use apps to speak with chinese people, in order to achieve a sufficient level of immersion. Do you think writting won't help me get used to and learn the ideograms faster?

Some people say it helps with memorization, and sure, time spent doing anything technically does, but I dunno if it's anything magical. I just think in this day and age we're lucky that you can pretty easily get by doing everything digital (so long as you're not going to a pen-and-paper environment like a school) so we can spend our time focusing on other things
But yeah I've been using the Migaku browser extension with Youtube videos and their pre-made flashcard deck, and mining any i+1 sentences to another deck. You can watch videos with both English and Mandarin subtitles until you get to ~100 words known or so and then start adding in mandarin-only videos into the mix in order to test comprehension. Occasional brushing up on grammar points here and there. For pronunciation I don't know what I'm gonna do yet lol

 

[AlexBrown84]

look into doing a language program in china. they’re generally free after applying for scholarships

For pronunciation I don't know what I'm gonna do yet lol

do mouth exercises

 

[Orientalist]

do mouth exercises

Do primal screaming to make voice deeper

 

[AlexBrown84]

Do primal screaming to make voice deeper

‘describing his own study of the chinese language, he remarks that by a year’s concentrated work, he acquired fluency in the spoken language’

 

[Marco Pumpo]

‘describing his own study of the chinese language, he remarks that by a year’s concentrated work, he acquired fluency in the spoken language’
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The diagrams are nice.

the second tongue position doesn‘t exist in euro languages, that’s why it sounds weird to us and is not so intuitive to copy.

 

[Orientalist]

‘describing his own study of the chinese language, he remarks that by a year’s concentrated work, he acquired fluency in the spoken language’
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Very helpful actually. By 'mouth exercises' I thought you were talking about looksmaxxing