My journey with Japanese began in the summer of 2017, when I first used JapanesePod101’s free Youtube series to teach myself hiragana and katakana. But actually, the seeds were probably planted long before that, by a middle school friend whose admiration of the language and culture led her to give me a Japanese nickname which …
Overview Quick summary: I’ve been learning Chinese on and off, both officially and on my own, with varying degrees of seriousness, for over 20 years, at this point. At my current level, I can understand (listen to and read) Chinese as long as it’s not overly technical. I am able to write simple blog posts …
Overview Quick summary: I’ve been learning Chinese on and off, both officially and on my own, with varying degrees of seriousness, for 10+ years. At my current level, I can understand (listen to and read) spoken Chinese as long as it’s not overly technical. I am able to write simple blog posts (with mistakes) and …
About I signed up for the RyuuuTV course “Learn Japanese with Anime and Songs from Zero to N4” course in November 2021, when they were doing a launch with a significant discount. The course is taught by Youtube couple Ryu and Yuma (Malaysian-immigrated-to-Japan and Japanese native, respectively) in Chinese. So I get to “hit two …
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I have been learning Chinese off and on for many years, but rarely with much seriousness. Most of it was watching shows and absorbing semi-passively. But in the last few years I’ve been thinking about taking a more active role in my learning. What I want to be able to do with Chinese: Translate my …
