Anyone speak mandarin?

[DiceyGrammar]

this might seem like a bit of a silly question, but the written language between dialects of Chinese is still independent right? (each written dialect different; simplified vs traditional different cross-dialect)

Or are traditional and simplified chinese writing independent of dialect and common?

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[Caribou]

My brother has been learning Mandarin Chinese for over 5 years, it's a very hard language to learn especially with all those characters.

[Parallax]

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[Dre5567]

Anyone speak Margarine??

[RagnaTheBroedge]

[Parallax]

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[Dre5567]

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[The Black Card]

I speak mandarin.

In mandarin/Chinese, there are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings, so the speaking part is easier than writing.
for example:

In english, we have 'he' and 'her', in Chinese we have '他' and '她', both are pronounced in the same way and only really matter when you are writing, the total amount of different pronunciations aren't really that many, but the different characters under the same pronunciation are in thousands.

I suggest learning some basic meanings, especially the connectives first; learn to pronounce them with the help of pin-yin and you shouldn't have too much trouble with speaking.

Writing is something you should worry about later on, so don't worry.

[Zealott]

my brother can speak Hanyu Mandarin or whatever very easily. it's not an easy language to learn though. Alphabet-based languages are much easier.

[MrLoganator111]

I've heard that it is worlds harder than any Latin-based language.

[|Shadow]

I just might learn to speak Mandarin, Japanese for the yen that I'm handling

/JayZ

[Nikolan]

i have a friend from mainland china, he was taught simplified chinese & pinyin

[ultimamax]

The only difference between traditional and simplified is writing, I believe.


I'm currently learning Mandarin. It's not too hard. I'm learning simplified though, but learning traditional after that shouldn't be too hard, as it's just to do with character association.

It's a very good international language and should help you get scholarships. It's also a cool language in general.

While I was personally not taught stroke order, it's probably a good idea to get that down, so you can read sloppy Chinese handwriting.

Tones are interesting. It might be embarrassing at first but if you learn in a class you'll get used to speaking it around them.

[KillerCop311]