For me it’s probably speech therapy and everything pertaining to that. I’m yet to encounter someone on here who is one apart from me (in training).

What about you?

  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Ah ha, my moment to brag about it:

    90% of Lemmy are Westerners, I probably know about Chinese Languages than most here. (Except a few users like @NorthWestWind@lemmy.world, they probably know it better)

    I can speak Cantonese and Mandarin and kinda understand Taishanese (台山話）(Taishan not Taiwan)

    I can read basic Chinese characters, type Pinyin and Jyutping. Can’t write on paper tho, idk how to recall it from memory, but I can recognize it if someone else wrote it down.

    (But don’t ask me to teach you lol, I only went to grade 2, not exactly a pro at it, I lack the vocabulary)

    Btw: I watched some youtube videos about foreign visitors to China, and um… their tones are kinda off, like waayyy off. Even people who’ve been there for like 10 yeats still have the tones being kinda wrong. (Its very hard, probably impossible if you didn’t grow up used to the difference in tones.)