Bernd
2022-05-28 05:38:44 ⋅ 1y
No. 149771
I think learning Chinese could be a good idea, what do you think?
In a few years there might be actually good content that never gets translated to English because the Chinese market is big enough. I am talking about novels, movies, TV shows, anime, manga, even memes, etc. Maybe they will have image boards that will actually generate 'lulz' again.
It could be a whole new Internet worth of stuff to waste my time on. Even if 90% of Chinese content is going to be trash that could still be a lot a good content.
Bernd
2022-05-28 05:50:39 ⋅ 1y
No. 149772
I'm too stupid and old to learn anything new
Bernd
2022-05-28 06:25:25 ⋅ 1y
No. 149773
>>149772
This
Bernd
2022-05-28 07:18:23 ⋅ 1y
No. 149774
>>149772
Did you try? My problem is laziness and losing interest too fast. When I actually do something it surprisingly easy. Learning with apps that tell you what to do next and give you daily quests is pretty nice. Way better than back in school when I had to write hundreds of paper cards.
Bernd
2022-05-28 07:49:06 ⋅ 1y
No. 149775
there are a lot of apps helping to learn Chinese, you'd be surprised
just remember that in the past there were people who could learn a language by just one book or by traveling and talking to locals, and you have whole internet and lots of apps that work even offline, dictionaries, courses, e-books
lots of shit
i miself tried to learn it and stopped at some point cause the job was eating too much time, but once i through this summer with that shite job, i'll return to learning Chinese
Bernd
2022-05-28 07:52:35 ⋅ 1y
No. 149776
>>149774
if you losing intrest
Try watching movies in Chinese
i once watched whole Harry Potter 7 movies in Chinese, helped a lot
try this if you not a fag like me
https://disk.yandex.ru/i/SQHHFbwDhk4ro
Bernd
2022-05-28 08:08:24 ⋅ 1y
No. 149777
>>149776
That is a good idea. I like xianxia and wuxia maybe there are some good anime adaptions by now.
Bernd
2022-05-28 10:17:15 ⋅ 1y
No. 149780
I am too stupid to get the 四声 right so I won't even try. But learning to read it only for the internet might be worth it.
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Bernd
2022-05-30 11:15:40 ⋅ 1y
No. 149913
>>149771
IIRC it has dialects.
Guangzhong aka Canton is notorious for having a dialect which feels like a separate language.
Bernd
2022-05-30 12:10:37 ⋅ 1y
No. 149915
>>149913
>dialects
It's about as divergent as Slavic languages from each other, from what I gather.
Still Mandarin is taught in schools so it'll help you everywhere, it's only for street use that you'll find it a bit lacking, and even then half of China speaks dialects similar enough to Mandarin it's not a problem.
Bernd
2022-05-30 14:58:42 ⋅ 1y
No. 149927
>>149913
Dialects aren't much of a problem because basically every Chinese person is fluent in their native language + mandarin. Mandarin acts as a "lingua franca" across all the different ethnicities and languages.
However, poorly educated and illiterate Chinese often do not have good Mandarin skills. Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, most of the Chinese diaspora only speaks Cantonese.
Also: use ANKI, MEMRISE, or some other SPACED REPETITION software