Started learning Mandarin Chinese because I’m dating a girl from China. Our first date was the beginning of December and I started learning on some apps within the next few days. I still have barely any oral comprehension skill unless she slows down a lot (tones are hard). But I can text simple sentences, and if I don’t know a character I can look it up on the fly. The other night while texting we had an exchange of maybe 10 messages back and forth where we were discussing our favourite pizza toppings. The longest message I sent her was “我爸爸做非常好吃的比萨。他有一个比萨烤箱” (My dad makes really good pizza. He has a pizza oven).
She tells me she’s really impressed with how quickly I’m learning.
Started learning Mandarin Chinese because I’m dating a girl from China. Our first date was the beginning of December and I started learning on some apps within the next few days. I still have barely any oral comprehension skill unless she slows down a lot (tones are hard). But I can text simple sentences, and if I don’t know a character I can look it up on the fly. The other night while texting we had an exchange of maybe 10 messages back and forth where we were discussing our favourite pizza toppings. The longest message I sent her was “我爸爸做非常好吃的比萨。他有一个比萨烤箱” (My dad makes really good pizza. He has a pizza oven).
She tells me she’s really impressed with how quickly I’m learning.