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[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

Do you actually speak Mandarin TimeThreeTheHighest? I've been studying it for a few years so I can have basic conversations with it. I can read about 30% of this headline. The news is difficult to translate for me.

[–]TimesThreeTheHighest[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Yes I do. 我住台灣快二十年了. 新聞是最難的, 不要放在心上哈哈.

Where are you studying?

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

放在心上

Thanks, I could read everything except that. Always good to add a new idiom to the mental library, thanks :)

I studied with a native-speaking teacher when I lived in Taiwan with private lessons, but after that I've self-studied.

[–]TimesThreeTheHighest[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Where in Taiwan?

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

One of the smaller offshoot cities of Taipei, don't want to dox myself by naming it

[–]TimesThreeTheHighest[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Fair enough. I've got in-laws in 樹林, 基隆, 鶯歌, and 三重. I get up there fairly often. Not fond of the weather up north, but plenty of interesting places to go.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nice, that's cool. I've not been to any of those except 樹林. I really liked the east side of Taiwan, it's so tropical and relaxed.

[–]Snow 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

你竟然会读中文!0.0

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Yup :) My fluency is quite poor though to be honest and I'm much better at reading than listening. That's cool you speak it too snow :)

[–]Snow 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I feel I have an awful fluency of English as well ...

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Your English fluency is not bad, don't worry

[–]Snow 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

:)

... Sometimes I feel shameful for let people knowing my first language in Chinese...for what this nation had been done to the world.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

As an American, I totally understand how you feel...

Many people are smart enough to separate the actions of the government from the everyday people, so no need for shame :)

[–]Snow 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Magnora ,I feel a kind of telepathy with you.