Yeah good luck with this on Duolingo lol. I'm years down the line and also having studied full-time over there, still far from "fluency".
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Firefly timeline!
FIREFLY TIMELINE!!
FIREFLY TIMELINE!!!!!!
I guess it's better than some alternatives, at least because we never found out what the Space Confederates were fighting for
This Tiktok ban is going to make people in the US do what they never did before and learn a second language. 万岁
什么万岁？
More like start learning a second language and give up after a week.
This may be a stereotype, but TikTok specifically caters to people with short attention spans.
Gateway learning.
I learned Spanish to write love letters in 2nd grade.
And now 30 years later, I know like a dozen languages at a basic level, but still good enough to be sent all over the world on business trips for free.
I wonder how many 7 year olds are picking up Mandarin to protest this tiktok thing.
Yeah learning to speak Mandarin is one thing but learning to read it feels fucking impossible if you don't start young.
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I don't get the connection between losing access to tik tok and starting a +20 years journey to learn chinese
It shouldn't take quite that long.
I believe that a clickbait title about 400 idiot people starting the first lesson in Duolingo and then quickly quitting without deleting their accounts is the through line here.
Just as I finally see Chinese culture gaining more global cultural relevance--- and it had to be in order to bypass a ban of an intrusive app.
Gotta rise up to that Firefly/Serenity lore.