![]() The cause of this is pretty simple and it can help you speak better Chinese. Trying to help Chinese people correct these sorts of speech oddities can be a nearly hopeless battle. The “Th” sound is often changed to an “S” sound and this can create real confusion when you hear “Mouse” instead of “Mouth”. You will find Chinese people can’t say a whole set of sounds very clearly, with “Th” being the most glaring one to hear when Chinese people speak English. ![]() Learning how Chinese people use their tongues to speak is actually pretty straightforward. I just can’t learn that stuff until I have needed it in real life and have something to connect my learning to. You still will need basic classes to get a grasp of the rules for characters, and how to make your Chinese more beautiful. Sometimes I would find this big ball of anger in me that when I let it go, I could just speak and understand Mandarin so much better. My own experiences with learning Chinese lead me to notice that the biggest growths in my language skills came from my mentality and how I was feeling, more than the Mandarin I knew or didn’t know. Learning in your first class how to buy commemorative stamps at the post office is for the most part useless and the typical fare of Mandarin text books. ![]() Getting a standard education on this subject is probably not going to get the results you are seeking. Learning how others just came to China and fit in quickly, while still being cool, was beyond me. My goal was to actually understand the environment I was living in. The language only made sense to me in real life and never in classes. I am not sure I was wise, but I learned to speak from living in China, and not in schools. Understanding in my head that Chinese was more like speaking poetry than an academic paper was far harder than doing it in practice. Learning grammar was easy for me, and Chinese didn’t really have grammar. It was the culture and not the language that became the biggest boundary for me. Learning Chinese was one of the hardest things I ever did. ![]() I came to China with no knowledge of Chinese and no skills at learning a foreign language. Learning foreign languages was always hard for me. ![]()
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