How do I learn Chinese? I want to be ready for the Chinese Century
How do I learn Chinese? I want to be ready for the Chinese Century
Even if the US vanished from existence today, english would still be the universal language because its the fastest and dumbest language to learn on earth
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1) Learn how to pronounce pinyin
2) Turn on a Chinese radio station and leave it on 24 hours a day, do not listen to anything else
3) when you hear a repeated sound or phrase, look it up in pinyin to learn what it means.
This may sound slow but it works much faster than rote education courses or writing with ink.
English is 6% more efficient than Vietnamese, the most efficient natural language (every concept is 1 syllable)
*Chinese Millennium
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Fortunately, the bugman mentality makes this very easy. Choose what side if chinkdom you’re on, it seems you’ve chosen the CCP side. If so, their standardized test for Chinese comprehension is called the HSK, and you will be learning simplified characters. Learn pinyin like the other anon said, it’s not hard, the five tones, then libgen some textbooks for the first few levels of the HSK, I can help you if you ask me for it. The good thing about the HSK is that it has a very methodical, level-by-level way of introducing new vocab and grammar concepts. Download Anki for making flashcards and knock out the words for the first few levels, it should be 300-500 words or so. Then you can see if you want to continue from there. Traveling in China isn’t too bad either, the visa process can be a bit annoying though.
It was not universal a couple of centuries ago, it'll not be universal in a couple of decades.
Honestly what could be easier than Mandarin? People who complain about it are a bit silly in my eyes.
The accent is a bit weird but at an underlying level it's the simplest thing you could ever come across. the vowels are simpler than spanish and the consonants are simpler than english.
five tones
toneless isn't a tone
also, if you're anywhere near the coastline you don't really need all those tones. you could get away with 2 basic tones if you wanted:
mā = high tone
má = low tone + high tone
mǎ = low tone
mà = high tone + low tone
ma = lolwhocares
It's easy, you vary the volume of your voice at random intervals while speaking gibberish
A couple centuries ago English was the dominant language of four continents: Europe, Africa, Australia, North America.
Must suck being from a pathetic country that's always looking for a new pimp daddy, it won't be the chinks retard.
French was the dominant language, not english.
who will it be then? Russia?
If you need to ask then you're too stupid to learn Mandarin
I’ve heard half the time tones don’t even matter so I’ve heard. There’s a lot of tone sandhis depending on the dialect which change up the way they’re pronounced anyway.
I’ll respectfully disagree with that. In 1825, right after the Napoleonic Wars, French was the language of art and diplomacy in Europe, Africa barely had any colonies and most of those were Portuguese, and the English colonists had barely settled the west and there were still lots of Spaniards and French fur trappers around. To be fair, I don’t know much about Australia
What's the alternative? It certainly isn't Chinese lmao.
Whoever told you bullshit lie deserves to be speared in the calf by abbos.
French is the language of corrupted latin cousinfuckers and was never of worldly concern.
In your sphere yes, chinks will get Asia if they play their NWO cards right, they won't though and will get btfo by bombs and shit.
Theres no point learning mandarin. Just let LLM do the translations for you
Retard. China IS the dominant world economy and a nuclear superpower. Nobody bombs them
The main issue is reading it, the second issue is the amount of homophones
no need to worry, you'll die long before it happens
the chinese century is like half-life 3
Knee how means hi. I've contributed
Nobody bombs them
Says who, the chinks? No one cares what they say about anything since they released a fucking plague on the world in 2020. Everyone wants them bombed into submission so it won't happen again.
tones are less relevant in modern times due to compounding. As mandarin merged historic sounds (it has a LOT of mergers) speakers began to use pairs of terms to descrive old ideas.
For example if you said "pengyou" everyone would know regardless of tone that you mean "friend", because the two components péng and yǒu both mean "friend" in historic Chinese. Most Mandarin words are like this.
This idea of French seems to be very ingrained in America, but it's objectively false.
The term "lingua franca" means "frankish (french) language." It was the first global language.
Someone who speaks English shouldn't badmouth any other language.
Anyone outside the US propaganda bubble can easily noticed this.
In the West, Greek, Latin and Spanish all played the "common language" role before French.
reading a logographic language
means you can read out loud in any language you want!
if you don't like homophones ask a German speaker how many translations for these English words:
the
run
set
But French was the first truly "global" language.
I also speak Dutch, Mandarin, Boganese, Ocker, Strine and Hunsrik.
Someone who speaks English shouldn't badmouth any other language.
What other language do you speak?
plague was revealed by DOGE to come from the US funded lab in Ukraine
I'd say it was Latin, in the West, Chinese (variations) has been the most dominant language in the world (if we measure by the number speakers) for most of the past 5000 years.
It's not an issue for me. I've studied a little Chinese and didn't have many issues with it. I couldn't remember the characters well but I never made an effort either. But you're kidding yourself if you think you're going to teach billions of non Chinese a tonal, picture based language with a ton of homophones. It's just not happening
I don’t know, Greek, Aramaic/Syriac, Arabic, and Persian were very important as well in their day, though I don’t doubt Chinese being a big language of course
Latin/Greek were extremely dominant during Roman times, that the empire had these two instead of Latin prevented it from being universal in the West.
If people can waste time learning English, they can learn Chinese.
Chinese(Variations) is a language
That's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. They arent mutually intelligible
here's a free lesson
ching chong ling long ting tong
They can, but will they? I doubt it
Me mutt, let me teach you about China... actually...
It's a single writing system, and mostly intelligible ways of speaking it.
Where did this "muh not intelligible" crap came from?
Lmao so instead of 5 vowels * 4 tones (20 cool simple phonemes) they'd rather learn English which has ???
en.m.wikipedia.org
The glownigger dictatorship had many plagues brewing in many countries, looks like the CCP shouldn't have gotten in bed with the now neutered glowniggers. Many countries have made that mistake, but the CCP still thinks the traitor spooks will get their power back, they won't and should really make a deal with our president for world peace.
I doubt it
I don't think a mutt playing pretend like you know any good.
But I'll concede that in a made up world where "muh not intelligible" and other made up stuff are real, people would go your way.
mutually intelligible
You mean like German and Dutch?
Oh man get a whiff of that chink stink
LOL nobody is afraid of USA.
Where did this "muh not intelligible" crap came from?
from non-chinese cultures using their own local variant of characters, for example Hanja and Kanzi both represent unintelligible spoken forms of the script.
You are disappointing Jiji Pingus with you poor shilling
Ok, I made it up... but... what if I try to quote some non-related stuff?
I should block Americans, you guys only say made up crap.
Sure, the problem is when some random mutt try to pretend that people who speak Cantonese totally cannot understand Mandarim because... to be fair I don't know why mutts do this.
Because they don't comprehend mutual inteligibility I guess.
Here's a fun sentence in a foreign language (Afrikaans). Can anyone guess what it means?
my hand is in warm water
Yes they are, now you're just a faggot shill simping for the bugmenn, enjoy you station in life because you deserve it foreign fag.
quotes by linguists are non related
You suck at this
No they are not. China is not afraid. Russia is definitely not afraid (you lost the war lmao)
you don't even make your bed in the morning how are you going to learn chinese?
He's right, nobody is afraid of the US. Not even weak militias like Houthis or the Taliban.
Me mutt, me want to be right... reeeeee
Guys like you are annoying. No tard, randomly quoting some scholars do not make the crap you made up real, even if the quote is vaguely related.
I mean, virtually any cantonese speaker can do a mock accent and sound like mandarin, though their vocabulary will be very out-dated.
This is no different to me putting a mock German accent on my Dutch. Germans know it's a bit dodgy but they still comphrened everything.
Because they don't comprehend mutual inteligibility I guess.
I'd also say that's because people like him want to be right at any cost, specially on subjects he doesn't know a thing about.
shifting the goal posts from non related to vaguely related
You suck at this, are you good at anything useful?
Turn on radio
Learn chinese in bed
learn chinese in sleep
always learn chinese
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You're a terrible shill, you be delivering food
Ok, I tried to talk about things I don't know, I was caught, bu... but... you and goal post and...
So, what happened with the "different dialects of Chinese are not mutually intelligible" crap you are trying to say?
maybe if I keep lying
You are an embarrassment to your entire family, what a dishonor
Do mutts really believe they can talk random lies, and as long as they say "other people bad" everyone will clap? This is Anon Babble, not Reddir or some evangelical church.
I'll just try to accuse him of being a liar, even after he posted evidence from Chinese academics
You suck and you're going to get fired for wasting state resources. Better look into electric mopeds
i posted and Chinese academic, how the hell cares if he's not saying what I'm saying, I posted a H E C K I N G academic.
Mutts..
Angry Chink noises
Do you think that if call others "chink" enough times, it'll make your lies more real?
I'll give you a tip, if you plan on making up stuff and expecting people to agree because it has "me mutt, let me tell you about China" on it, try at least another thread like /ptg/, or another board like Anon Babble.
Chink seethe continues
ching chong ling ding pingping sping bring ding, would you rike some pee pee eggs
Russian anon, you already know the best language, American. We're going to end up becoming close allies.
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