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I'm sitting down to my breakfast of pepper with a bit of scrambled eggs on toast.
Are there any Te Reo or Mandarin speakers here?
I've been super hooked on ADV Podcasts and learning all about China, so now I have the urge to learn Mandarin.
I think I'll be having another downsize day where I try to declutter as much as I can, but it gets exponentially harder as I get closer to only having essentials.
What's everyone else up to?
I speak Mandarin, that's like my first language I suppose.
Cool, so there's definitely speakers around.
I wonder if there's a Taiwan instance..
I hate to link this but uh can't find a better resource with quick Google
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChineseLanguage/wiki/faq
Essentially you'll want to decide to go with Simplified or Traditional mandarin, Pinyin vs Zhuyin. Taiwan and HK use Traditional, you'll learn through Zhuyin, while China/SG/MY (and many others) use Simplified, learnt through Pinyin. Ignore dialects eg. Cantonese, Hokkien all that for now.
It's totally fine to link a reddit post as a source. We can still use the info from there, just better not to engage.
Even better, repost all the info here so we don't have to give them traffic. I might find a language learning instance and do that.
InB4 "but that's stealing": Spez has already established that Reddit owns the content, not the users, so you're stealing from Reddit, not the OP.
Thanks! I will be focusing on Mandarin as used in mainland.
I know there are a few te reo learners around, not sure about fluent speakers. You can probably find Mandarin night classes pretty easily.
I think when learning a language, having a class that you attend with others can really help with motivation. I did a couple of years of (mostly) in person classes of te reo, and once they stopped it was a lot harder to keep the motivation to continue learning.
Got arborists in today cutting back tree overgrowth on the driveway and removing smaller stuff that is rapidly taking over. These last 2 wet years have really caused a lot of excessive growth.