dannyboy Posted January 11, 2014 Report Share Posted January 11, 2014 To those of you who have being studying Chinese, how long have you been studying?How would you rate your fluency when it comes to speaking the language and how comfortable are you speaking the language? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delusional Posted January 16, 2014 Report Share Posted January 16, 2014 I've been trying to learn Chinese in my spare time for a year now but I've not really put a lot of effort in it mostly because I suddenly got a lot more work. I understand some words but I don't even think I could pick them up in a conversation.I would love to start learning again so as soon as I get some more time, I'll begin again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrhumphrey Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 I studied for about a year and a half with a teacher, but I never had the opportunity to hear it and practice speaking it back. The words I have learned I will not really forget because I go over them regularly, but as far as becoming conversational, I need to be around people speaking it in order to get any good at it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CeliVega Posted February 12, 2014 Report Share Posted February 12, 2014 The hard part about learning chinese is that there's thousands of characters that can be used in a lot of different ways. A beginner might be turned off by having to memorize so many different words/ characters which is actually very understandable. Here's hoping the passion for learning got everyone through the hard stages! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baburra Posted February 12, 2014 Report Share Posted February 12, 2014 I studied Chinese for over ten years as a kid, and I got pretty good at it, although unfortunately, I've forgotten a lot of it at this point. I can probably communicate relatively well with any local now, still, but I'd have to get a serious refresher course to be able to speak it again straight without needing to stop so much to think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffyducky Posted February 20, 2014 Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 I've studied Chinese for about 15 years (forced on us in school) and have maintained fluency because of work and conversation that I have to do. Sometimes if people have really heavy accents I have to process a bit before working out which words are supposed to be which ones, but written wise it's pretty easy to understand. I won't say I'm the best, in fact I was one of the bottom in my class, but I'm definitely at a pretty decent standard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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