Like how do you fit all the Chinese characters on a Chinese laptop, wouldn’t that take up a shit ton of space?
Sorry I’m a big ignorant American who barely speaks English so I got no fucking idea.
Like how do you fit all the Chinese characters on a Chinese laptop, wouldn’t that take up a shit ton of space?
Sorry I’m a big ignorant American who barely speaks English so I got no fucking idea.
IIRC in China they type in pinyin and then basically have an autocorrect algorithm that generates the characters
Interesting, I’ve never heard of pinyin before.
I wish I had the time and energy to learn Mandarin, always thought it’d be interesting to learn a language that so structurally different to European languages but sadly I just don’t have the brain for it. I’m still trying to get decent at Spanish.
Learn it. Is fun. It doesn’t have to be a chore, it can be a hobby.
我相信你
I don’t trust myself sadly :(
But maybe I’ll give it a wing, at worst I’ll learn how to say “where is the bathroom” in Chinese which is the most useful phrase ever.
洗手间在哪里？
洗手间 - Bathroom [literally wash-hand-room]
在 - (is) at [many usages but here it means is]
哪里 - where? [a where-question pronoun together with a character meaning inside]
All of these are words contained within the first or second official level of Chinese for foreigners (the HSK exam), and building a basic sentence is actually quite easy :)
It can be daunting to start learning Mandarin because of the characters and tones, but the total disparity from English makes it fun to explore - a whole different world of language!
Is 我对你有信心 a better way to say “I believe in you”? I feel like I have only ever seen 我相信你 mean like you believe what someone is saying
Not native, but, I don’t think that’s a better way to say it. 我相信你 can, contextually, also mean ‘I believe in you’.
谢谢你。我的汉语不太好。我总是忘记了对的语法和词
还有更自然更地道的说法：
老是比“总是” 会听起来更加 colloquial 反而“总是”听起来更加书面一些
“记不住”这个语法搭配 ［动词+不住］特别好用。意思就是根本做不了[什么]。［记不住］是你怎么也［记住不了］语法和词汇
I’m so shit at this language
Sorry I didn’t want to discourage you. I want to give some targeted grammar tricks to say the same sentence in a smoother way. I also went through the same learning steps as you and would have previously constructed my sentences in the same way, til I encountered the more ‘natural’ sentence constructions
(Also, I tried to give my feedback in Chinese cos I know you’d be able to handle it, rather than Englifying it for you)
May I ask what methods you use to learn? I’ve been plateaued for over a year.
In addition to pinyin, people also just write the characters by hand using their fingers, like on a phone. There’s also things like Zhuyin, used in Taiwan, that are usually harder for non-native speakers to learn than Pinyin. You learn the most common character components/sounds and then ‘build’ full sentences that way.
There’s some cool alternative input methods out there too.