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Anyone else learning any languages at the moment? (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 5 days ago by to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml
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If yes, how's it going? What do you like about it? What don't you like? What challenges are you encountering? How are you approaching it?

I ask because my partner and i both decided last year we would start doing a little language learning in our spare time, and it's been quite nice to have that "back to school" feeling again after so many years.

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[–] 8 points 4 days ago

I'm learning Mandarin right now, and currently I'm at HSK3. I can read and write fine, but my listening and speaking needs more polishing.

Learning Mandarin is way easier than learning English for me. Mandarin gramer is surprisingly similar to my native tongue compared to English, which has completely different grammar and pronunciation logic. And learning hanzi is somehow easier than learning pinyin for me.

Since Mandarin is a word-based language unlike English, which is a letter-based language, I have to study it frequently to not forget the words.

I memorize sentences instead of words. That way, I can remember a word faster and I have something to say in a conversation.

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