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Q: How is your chinese?!!!!

Chinese language i mean..................is it good or bad.....and do you know any dialects.............JUST CURIOUS

11 years 31 weeks ago in  General  - China

 
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  My Chinese is frustrating. I started studying about 8 years ago but I made the mistake of only learning to read pinyin. Then after four years of self study I realized that living here, the best thing I could do would be to study the characters as well, so for the last four years i've been relearning a load of stuff i'd already learnt. Like I said, frustrating. On the whole i'm doing fine but i've kind of hit a comfortable plateau which makes me lazy in my study. You could probably draw a comparison between my speaking level and that of a 7 year old child's. Elementary but capable.

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Zilch or pretty close to it.  On a scale of 1 too 100.......I'm a 5.

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survival Smile

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It is at a level I am comfortable with.  I didn't come here to learn the language.  I came here to make money and get the top of my feet waxed.

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I'm on the verge of a breakthrough everyday but then i realize that there's still a ton of shit to learn and I'm only........ok.

 

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no good

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Good to see that Mattie and one of his alts are back.  This board almost felt lonely without his inane comments and his pathetic point grabs.

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decent

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As good as your English,so so

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Absolute beginner, my speaking is abysmal, my listening marginally better, my reading is genuine beginner level and my writing a tad better than that.

 

I don't know why but every time I learn a language, I always struggle with the speaking and listening the most. Still I've got the rest of a lifetime to perfect this language and I AM trying.

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na ge na ge na ge na ge na ge na ge

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I barely learned any Chinese, even in China. I learned most of the basic Chinese I know from a Chinese class I took in college. However, my Korean is going swimmingly...I hope.

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my Chinese is pretty good because i passed HSK  exam

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my Chinese is perfect!

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I speak about 40 words and understand about 100 and I can read about 5 characters.

But I have hosts..English speaking Chinese friends and a Chinese GF to help me so I have become lazy in my learning.

I took a Mandarin class back home for 1 month at a college then was sent back to China...oh well.

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Just good/poor enough to get me in trouble...

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my Chinese is fluent, but learning chinese is the most useless thing u can do with ur time.. Better don't understand what they say...trust me.

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Diabolical to say the least

I came here suddenly, and so didn't have time to study the language 

Been here a few months, and i know and understand a few words.

My colleagues try to teach me everyday, but by next morning i have forgot.

Think it was all the drugs and booze in my younger days has fried my brain. 

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my chinese is good..............i also can speak a bit cantonese

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Like a native I bet

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i took a course in Zhongshan university which one of the best universities in China.........so i guess my chinese is good enough to compete with chinese people

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my chinese is very poor lmao no why

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I speak enough to get further in the Shitsurprise

 

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honestly, chinese is just good for two things:

u open ur own company

u fight with a guy and the whole city comes to beat u up...then u can talk...

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This thread needs more excessive use of punctuation, don't you agree?!?!!?!?!?!1....................!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!.......................................................................................................................?!.................!!!.........................?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!??!?!?!

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