Wondering why other people are learning Chinese.
In my case I’m learning the language because my partner is Chinese and I want to communicate more with her family.
Just starting out, but it would be great to know about others
Wondering why other people are learning Chinese.
In my case I’m learning the language because my partner is Chinese and I want to communicate more with her family.
Just starting out, but it would be great to know about others
I have a special attitude and love for languages. It’s a long story.
My native language is Russian. However, I was born in Kazakhstan and was learning Turkic Kazakh and Germanic English in school.
I really enjoyed learning languages so later I entered the Linguistics faculty of the South Ural State University in Chelyabinsk, Russia. My major was English – Old English, Middle English, and lots of theoretical stuff. As my second foreign language I chose German.
However, I graduated from University, I can’t resist the temptation (yes, I’m a nerd), and shifted to the IT area.
But no one can escape their fortune. Several years ago I moved to Montenegro that is a Serbian-speaking country. So I joined the Serbian language classes.
And what I’m working on now? – The application for learning Chinese !
It felt like a natural transition after studying Japanese for so many years. Also, spoken Chinese is beautiful.
Did you reach N1 level in Japanese? I feel Japanese is easier at first but gets super tough after N3 level. With Chinese I feel the opposite.
Yes I’ve passed the N1. I don’t feel that the jlpt is a great way of judging actual fluency though.
I live in Taiwan and want to live here forever. I love it so much. I’m quitting my English teaching job to study Chinese, so I can have more career options for living here…
You think spoken Chinese is beautiful after learning Japanese? Lol I love living in Taiwan, but I don’t exactly think Chinese is “beautiful”… then again I don’t think English is beautiful either. I think the only “beautiful” spoken language is Japanese, actually! But to each their own!
If you want to live in Taiwan, I would recommend learning the traditional characters, not the simplified that are taught on this website hahaha
Finally I got that answer about Pandanese! I couldn’t find it anywhere! Lol.
I thrived with Wanikani for Japanese. I’m currently working on traditional characters, but it can’t hurt to have some mnemonics of radicals, simpler characters etc that I can incorporate into bigger characters.
Can you get around with English in Taiwan? It was a former Japanese colony, so perhaps many people speak Japanese too?
For culture, food and many things interesting
I’ve been fascinated East Asian Culture for a very long time, and have always wanted to learn the language! I started learning Japanese earlier this year (And still am!) thanks to the Corona pandemic, but I have time to study both so why not?
I am a Chinese-American that is beginner-intermediate on Chinese. My family mainly lives in Lanzhou, Gansu, a city that is about the same population as Los Angeles, but definitely not as popular. I want to repair my Chinese so I went here from a post on the Wanikani forum (I am learning Japanese also). I hope to do well on my journey since Pandanese seems promising!
I just really love the language and the country itself.