I dropped Spanish which was the only language offered during my high school years. I regret it, and now I'm embarrassed to start learning as a uni-aged guy. I want to learn Mandarin because then I would know English and Mandarin which would cover like 50% of the populations speaking abilities.

Basically I just feel like a dumb American and being a Marxist I need to know another language.

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[+] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Memorizing all the characters I find is the hard part, the grammar is much simpler than English or German, that's for sure

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I have no trouble memorizing the digital characters, but holy hell, writing is tough. I pretty much only can write 我,你,用,有 and a couple others from memory, and I practice writing at least a few hours a week.

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