It was a lot of work but fairly painless; all I really needed was a good dictionary and a battered French grammar book I got at a garage sale. This kind of "sink or swim" approach just doesn't work in Chinese. At the end of three years of learning Chinese, I hadn't yet read a...
Tokyo has a deep-seated sickness in how work-addicted culture here has become. People say foreigners need to respect it, but honestly screw that. Tokyo is the most screwed up place on Earth. 30 ( +41 / -11 ) Mocheake Mar. 14, 2014 10:52 am JST I always know w...
This kind of "sink or swim" approach just doesn't work in Chinese. At the end of three years of learning Chinese, I hadn't yet read a single complete novel. I found it just too hard, impossibly slow, and unrewarding. Newspapers, too, were still too daunting. I couldn't read an a...
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Again, hard to say, but I would estimate that it takes the average learner several months of hard work to get the basics down. Maybe a year or more if they're a klutz who was never very good in art class. Meanwhile, their Chinese counterpart learning English has zoomed ahead to learn...
Again, hard to say, but I would estimate that it takes the average learner several months of hard work to get the basics down. Maybe a year or more if they're a klutz who was never very good in art class. Meanwhile, their Chinese counterpart learning English has zoomed ahead to learn...