As a way to keep myself accountable and also learn Mandarin more effectively, I will be sharing how I'm trying to improve my Mandarin as a "heritage" speaker.
People that have experienced language attrition of their native language, how difficult was it to relearn your language? And do you have any tips on how to overcome mental blocks and other challenges with it?
If you are learning a new language in general, which techniques work best for you that I can try?
Currently I speak my native language very poorly (about A2 level), but English pretty much fluently. I'm taking lessons and I know native fluent speakers IRL, but it really is a struggle.
Hello there, I may look like 着 but I have four different meanings depending on the context! And just to make things interesting, I even sound different! Just which one am I when you read the text? Well, it's up to you to figure that out! Har Har.
These Ecolinguist videos are so interesting. I especially love those about languages that are close to the ones I know. Afrikaans doesn’t seem difficult at all to me as I not only speak English in addition to my native language of German but I also have a good basic knowledge of Dutch. All of these help deciphering Afrikaans: https://youtu.be/ZPgufM3Phqc
This one about English speakers trying to understand simple Dutch sentences is also very entertaining: https://youtu.be/DNDtwEXQKMY #linguistics#LearningLanguages#languages
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