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Sign I've gone insane: Seriously considering learning a little Mandarin
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Date: June 20th, 2022 4:30 PM Author: brindle cocky library (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5135254&forum_id=2.#44713500) |
Date: June 20th, 2022 4:32 PM Author: contagious messiness 加油！ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5135254&forum_id=2.#44713511) |
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Date: June 20th, 2022 4:34 PM Author: brindle cocky library That's actually the first and only conversation I've had in Mandarin. A couple years ago an old Chinese guy was doing the Olympic lifts and I cheered him on with 加油 and he said 加油 as I left the platform room. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5135254&forum_id=2.#44713528) |
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Date: June 20th, 2022 4:36 PM Author: contagious messiness 180
Chinese grammar is actually super simple and it’s far easier to learn than many Indo-European languages if you forego learning how to read or write |
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Date: June 20th, 2022 4:39 PM Author: brindle cocky library I can already read about 2k characters from studying Japanese, the reading will be the easy part. Might start picking at DeFrancis, who afaik exclusively uses Pinyin for his grammars. Long-term goal is to be able to read Classical Chinese by way of 漢文訓読. Have a book on it (精講漢文) but that's a bit beyond my Japanese right now.
Classical Chinese has the most 180 grammar of any language imo, it's basically a free-for-all with infinite zero-derivation. |
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Date: June 20th, 2022 4:57 PM Author: contagious messiness Oh you’re good then (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5135254&forum_id=2.#44713657) |
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Date: June 21st, 2022 10:46 PM Author: brindle cocky library Actually surprised at how close Mandarin open/nasal-closed syllables are to Middle Chinese used as a basis for the Japanese readings, I would have thought they went further off the reservation. Also dumbstruck at this note on Wiktionary: "Mandarin speakers have a strong tendency to avoid monosyllabic terms. In order to satisfy this restriction, 很 is added before monosyllabic adjectives without any actual meaning. Similarly, Chinese people with monosyllabic first names will usually be addressed by their full name, even by their parents." |
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Date: June 20th, 2022 10:03 PM Author: Concupiscible yellow striped hyena I used DeFrancis. It's great. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5135254&forum_id=2.#44714978) |
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Date: June 20th, 2022 4:34 PM Author: harsh aromatic trump supporter your wife will probably appreciate it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5135254&forum_id=2.#44713537) |
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Date: November 3rd, 2025 5:55 PM Author: Maroon fear-inspiring philosopher-king blood rage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5135254&forum_id=2.#49398913) |
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Date: June 20th, 2022 4:43 PM Author: Fuchsia pungent lettuce laser beams it's not that bad, just learn how to say some stuff and don't bother with their ridiculous pictograph nonsense (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5135254&forum_id=2.#44713605) |
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Date: June 20th, 2022 4:44 PM Author: brindle cocky library I'm already balls deep in ridiculous pictogrpah nonsense, completed "Remembering the Kanji" by Heisig a couple years ago, 2200 characters (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5135254&forum_id=2.#44713613) |
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Date: June 20th, 2022 4:53 PM Author: Fuchsia pungent lettuce laser beams i can read most classical chinese with some effort
i agree it's 180 |
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Date: June 20th, 2022 4:54 PM Author: Brilliant Bipolar Area its the future, i wish to learn to, btw i want to be rammed in the ass by Gorgeous Xi Jinping (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5135254&forum_id=2.#44713641) |
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Date: June 20th, 2022 10:01 PM Author: brindle cocky library The DeFrancis tapes are 180. >"The dialogue will be read straight through at normal speed." >Peking rap battle commences |