I have been learning Mandarin for a month now. My hope is to be fluent and unaccented within 12 months. I might as well learn it due to my area's and country's demographics. I have accepted our new overlords.
Learning a new language
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Xi Jinping approvesI have been learning Mandarin for a month now. My hope is to be fluent and unaccented within 12 months. I might as well learn it due to my area's and country's demographics. I have accepted our new overlords.
Do you plan on learning a second language?
I was learning a little bit of Italian but I've been procrastinating lately. I'll get back to it eventually.
Makes sense why you'd want to learn it.
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I have been learning Mandarin for a month now. My hope is to be fluent and unaccented within 12 months. I might as well learn it due to my area's and country's demographics. I have accepted our new overlords.
I have tried self-learning French and Arabic, but given up hope and quit. I can't pronounce French for the life of me and the lack of vowels + extreme dialectal variation in Arabic made me lose hope of mastering it.
I would try Mandarin if it weren't for their hieroglyphic script.
quiero aprender español 
I have been trying since high school ,on and off, but I never was too serious about it , I can understand a bit when spoken slowly. .
I have been trying since high school ,on and off, but I never was too serious about it , I can understand a bit when spoken slowly. .
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the biggest issue with mandarin for learners is the tone. the tone makes the word into something completely different lol
Why don't you carry on with Arabic? You don't need to learn the different dialects just the standard form, right?
Makes sense considering Amhara's cultural dominance.
Japanese and Italian is what I'm learning
English and Somali is all I need
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Arabic IMO isn't a single language. It is only considered one language for political reasons and religious conservativism in the Arab world by artificially trying to keep the written language as close to the Quran as possible.
It would be like Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Romania all speaking their own languages in daily life (Portuguese, French, Romanian etc.), but when writing things down all of a sudden only use Latin. Strange situation up there.
You can't connect with people using Fusha, it is seen as standoffish. That's what demotivated me and made me drop it.
Arabic IMO isn't a single language. It is only considered one language for political reasons and religious conservativism in the Arab world by artificially trying to keep the written language as close to the Quran as possible.
It would be like Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Romania all speaking their own languages in daily life (Portuguese, French, Romanian etc.), but when writing things down all of a sudden only use Latin. Strange situation up there.
You can't connect with people using Fusha, it is seen as standoffish. That's what demotivated me and made me drop it.
