• AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Most of the folks I know there who speak well never bother learning to read and write characters. I can’t blame them. It’s a huge commitment to learn a non-phonetic language. But it was funny to watch them be as clueless as me when we walk through a supermarket

    I do know one guy who became so fluent that he earned their equivalent of a green card (almost unheard of).

    Are you a Wechat user?

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      It seems doable, I can probably recognize around a thousand characters or so at this point, and using pinyin as input means I can skip learning how to write the characters which seems to be the hardest part. And I’m not on Wechat.