In Flames Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 Chinese are moving into my area at an alarming rate, setting up little farming operations, and even now I shop at their awesome grocery store, but I'd like to communicate with them aside from hello. Most of them don't speak a lick of english and I don't want to move so if I already know conversational Japanese why not Mandarin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedemptionZeni Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 I've heard that Mandarin is an extremely difficult to language to learn for a native English speaker. I'm trying to learn to read Latin and Greek, but they're pretty hard languages to pick up. I have a reading knowledge of French, but there are still a lot of times when I don't know a word or an idiomatic expression and have to look up the meaning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
In Flames Posted December 4, 2020 Author Share Posted December 4, 2020 1 hour ago, RedemptionZeni said: I've heard that Mandarin is an extremely difficult to language to learn for a native English speaker. I'm trying to learn to read Latin and Greek, but they're pretty hard languages to pick up. I have a reading knowledge of French, but there are still a lot of times when I don't know a word or an idiomatic expression and have to look up the meaning. They're everywhere now in my area. They're buying properties like hot cakes, the least I'd like to be able to do is communicate with them enough to say hello, ask what they're growing, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poof Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 Master the four tones if you can do them flawlessly theyll be impressed even if only know a couple words Maybe you already have experience.. idk japanese does it have tones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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