While I am exhausted from learning and don't want to do it anymore I listen. I make some food, go on YxuTxbe and type in Mandarin Chinese News. This is great for practice in listening, it is especially good if there is Chinese subtitles, so you can follow along with the characters you know. Not to be offensive, but it feels good, just in this short amount of time to transform a lot of noise into something real. It's funny that when you know nothing of a language it sounds so alien and obscure. Just learning the small amount I have, I hear the words I know and can even distinguish word breaks.
That has to be my number one reason for learning another language. To open up a different world that otherwise would not exist. Not to mention Chinese girls are very beautiful. Which - No - that is not my reason for learning Chinese. I could be fluent in Spanish in 4 months and be surrounded by beautiful senoritas if that was my motivation.
Another thing that is fun to do. Pick out an article from Wxkxpxdia in Mandarin Chinese. Read that article everyday and after a month read it again. It feels good to mark your progress by being able to read an article you had no clue about 30 days ago.
This blog is about me attempting to obtain working knowledge of Chinese within a one year time frame. I wish to be able to leave the house on a daily basis without speaking English.
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