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Yes, I want to learn new languages, but I always hit some kind of plateau where I don’t see any progress and end up giving up. It would be cool to learn Russian or Chinese, but as far as I understand, those are some of the hardest languages to learn.
English is the de facto language here, and in schools they teach French and German, sometimes Spanish or Italian specifically because they are easier for English speakers to learn.
As for me, I don't see the point in learning a language. You'll likely never have a proper accent enough to blend in and be treated 'locally' even if you look local enough and would be better off getting one of these imho. Good for business trips too:
As for me, I don't see the point in learning a language. You'll likely never have a proper accent enough to blend in and be treated 'locally' even if you look local enough and would be better off getting one of these imho. Good for business trips too:
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I use the Google translate App as you can scan text and instantly convert and set it to have a conversation between two people. You can save the language as well so you don't have to have WiFi etc
It's been handy when I've been out to places like Germany, Italy and Holland
Somehow I doubt that in any country employer would pay for you to just stand near a wall. Especially China sounds like one of these countries with heavy overwork culture so idk, but feel free to enlighten us all
. You know, China is interesting career-wise since everything's shifting to the east right now, instead of US so I'd say any exposure to the language you can have or any networking, clients from there are valuable, maybe go on a conference there once in a while, heard also that nowadays people send their kids to chinese instead of american universities for foreign education. So yeah, China is very interesting, but it's also true like @polecat complained it's a regime basically, you can't access the net without VPN really, language is sooo hard and before you get proficient I'm afraid it might be hard to get around idk. Like, here in Malaysia or if I go to Singapore I can get around with english and focus on life. Not that I don't like learning languages, but I'm thinking this one might take a while if you even dare to try . So I'll be honest I'm personally heading more towards Malaysia/Singapore/Hong Kong instead of mainland China but I'd love to visit and network for sure... Prices in the mainland surely are better than these three places but damnnnn, the language, the great firewall drama... Hmmm. Like, I'm kinda up for China kinda not, mixed feelings . Also I'd be surprised, if you guys for example always did your own IM business without corporate employee experience, I don't think any company would like someone like that due to socialization issues ('you don't know how to work in a team'). Like, if you have past corporate experience or want to go to chinese uni and get a job after that then it might work 
.殺人放火金腰帶，修橋補路無屍骸
literally: Killing people, setting fire, goldern belt，repair bridge, patching roads no dead corpse
Translation: Those who kill and set fire wear a golden belt, but those who repair bridges and patch the roads don't have their corpse left.
Feelin' philosophical. The video also has a thing about pickles, so maybe it's possible to order pickles in China, all by yourself
. Just my typical social media feed.Other than my mother tongue polish I also know english and some german (went to bilingual school with german in junior high and on short student exchange to Germany in high school) so I'd think for practical reasons figuring out spanish and some major asian language would be good. Spanish and portugese do seem to be easy, I realized I can actually read a lil bit of both just after some minor flirting with a brazillian dude and watching silly telenovelas
(in spanish mostly). Like, I'm not very good, but I didn't go to ANY classes so I'm shocked I understand anything at all, shit's easier than german . Hell, I understand more spanish than german and sinhala (I don't understand sinhala at all, sorry 
) even though I was in bilingual school with german and lived in Lanka for almost 2 years (everyone spoke to me in english, though).One thing I really struggle with are other alphabets... Like idk, if I transliterated some ukrainian or russian stuff to latin script I could actually understand, like, 1/3 of it, without learning, but I just fuckin can't with the cyryllic. And I do realize cyryllic is easy in comparison to chinese or japanese letters (which are words and there's shittons of them). If I got *at least* cyryllic it'd be new skill unlocked
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Somehow I doubt that in any country employer would pay for you to just stand near a wall. Especially China sounds like one of these countries with heavy overwork culture so idk, but feel free to enlighten us all
殺人放火金腰帶，修橋補路無屍骸
literally: Killing people, setting fire, goldern belt，repair bridge, patching roads no dead corpse
Translation: Those who kill and set fire wear a golden belt, but those who repair bridges and patch the roads don't have their corpse left.
Feelin' philosophical. The video also has a thing about pickles, so maybe it's possible to order pickles in China, all by yourself
Other than my mother tongue polish I also know english and some german (went to bilingual school with german in junior high and on short student exchange to Germany in high school) so I'd think for practical reasons figuring out spanish and some major asian language would be good. Spanish and portugese do seem to be easy, I realized I can actually read a lil bit of both just after some minor flirting with a brazillian dude and watching silly telenovelas
One thing I really struggle with are other alphabets... Like idk, if I transliterated some ukrainian or russian stuff to latin script I could actually understand, like, 1/3 of it, without learning, but I just fuckin can't with the cyryllic. And I do realize cyryllic is easy in comparison to chinese or japanese letters (which are words and there's shittons of them). If I got *at least* cyryllic it'd be new skill unlocked
You might find this funny but most of your Polish even I guess what you could call simple words I find very confusing, how to say them or how to make sense in Polish letters.
Most people stopped going to China like 3 years ago which includes Hong Kong over the government getting more unstable one of my brothers used to go all the time to China so I have experience knowlege from that plus knew who married a Chinese woman so know that as well that guy did learn some Chinese before doing the whole marriage or moving their long term
To compare I find Russian or Ukranian or Serbian words semi easy overall.
To me most complex laguages be Polish or Chinese or Hungarian
