47

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] Kultronx@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months 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.

this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2023
47 points (98.0% liked)

Comradeship // Freechat

2124 readers
148 users here now

Talk about whatever, respecting the rules established by Lemmygrad. Failing to comply with the rules will grant you a few warnings, insisting on breaking them will grant you a beautiful shiny banwall.

A community for comrades to chat and talk about whatever doesn't fit other communities

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS