i spoke like a retard for the first year, was fluent by the second year and had a much larger vocabulary after five years and now after ten years i know how to flirt better in chinese than english lol its actually a beautiful language , but the commies bastardized it with simplification and mainland chinese have no morals because of the cultural revolution so the give the language a bad name. if you want to learn chinese focus on learning the radicals ()and the top 1000 most common words. chinese has retardedly simple grammar so as long as your pronunciation is on point its not that hard.
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