Have any of you tried learning Mandarin? What's it like?

Have any of you tried learning Mandarin? What's it like?

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Tones are impossible and the characters are stupid.

Studied it for 5 years and can speak fluently with natives but I still struggle to read a simple news article. Literary Chinese is like a completely different language sometimes.

You can't "learn" Mandarin unless you are exposed to it from a really young age. Don't learn it. Go learn Japanese instead. It's much better.

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Okay this is not what the thread is about. Op dont want to know answer to question. He wants us to talk over op pic.

So why are chinese so racist against black?

It's a real question I just wanted to post a fun pic with the thread as well

Japanese has a much harder grammar doesn't it?

So racism is fun? What the fuck is wrong with your head.

Black people are a completely new phenomenon in China. Remember this is a country in which white people get stared at for being white too. Its a mixture of fascination, curiosity and fear for them, because popular culture and Hollywood often depicts blacks as criminals. The blacks living in China are also a factor since they can be involved in shady activities and can come from the poorest parts of Africa.

No, it is much easier for foreigners to comprehend. Mandarin is very hard and not worth spending the time to learn. Japan is much easier if you are white.

>Learning a dying language
lol

this

I think it's harder in the sense that it's very difficult to sound like a native and not let out some weirdly constructed phrases, but not really harder to understand or be understood.

Xie xie shi shi

R8 my mandarin skills

>Learning a socialist language

There's 900 million native speakers and 200 million L2 speakers, how's it dying?

I haven't tried it yet, but it seems like learning mandarin will be mandatory soon so i need to get at least slightly prepared.
What's the best way to start learning the basics of it?

Learn the syllables and tones with the help of pinyin

>Have any of you tried learning Mandarin? What's it like?
the chinese language and writing system is a tool of oppression designed to stupefy people and make them slaves.
It is an archaic, non-functional language and writing system. Wherever it is taught, illiteracy and ignorance increases.

I recommend starting at the elementary level with the Chinese Primer Character Workbook by Ta-Tuan Ch'en, Perry Link, Yih-Jian Tai, Hai-Tao Tang.

>wanting to talk with ch*nese

too many similar sounds and caracters is the worst part

>You can't "learn" Mandarin unless you are exposed to it from a really young age. Don't learn it. Go learn Japanese instead. It's much better.

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I heard learners will never get to a stage where they don't stumble upon unknown signs

grammar is the easiest part of mandarin

Uhm, you realize even native English speakers stumble upon words they don't know every once in a while?

it IS impossible to learn mandarin because the language is ridiculous. slight tonal and accent differences make it impossible for speakers to understand each other.

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Bu hao
Fansu or fontsu or something like that
Ayyyya

>feels like a completely different language
Maybe because it actually is completely different

Mandarin characters are alien runes

>but I still struggle to read a simple news article.
yes because it is a non-functinoal language. the communist party of china likes it that way.
Most chinese are functionally illiterate.

I don't think Chinese is a human language.

I remember when every middle class white person was teaching their kids mandarin back in 2008. It'll never be the lingua franca. Hanzi is too difficult and isn't really beneficial for anything beyond saving space on a page.

I have a Chinese friend and we can't even pronounce his name. We had to give him another name because nobody was able to get it right