Comments on: Three things I wish I had known as an advanced student of Chinese: The time machine, part 3 https://www.hackingchinese.com/three-things-i-wish-i-had-known-as-an-advanced-student-of-chinese-time-machine-part-3/ A better way of learning Mandarin Sun, 10 Nov 2024 10:27:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Olle Linge https://www.hackingchinese.com/three-things-i-wish-i-had-known-as-an-advanced-student-of-chinese-time-machine-part-3/#comment-125363 Sun, 10 Nov 2024 10:27:06 +0000 https://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=16855#comment-125363 In reply to Harland.

Good point! And you’re of course spot on when it comes to the selection bias. I think the target audience for this specific article is people who think that being able to deal with everyday life in Chinese is not enough. You can already do these things on the intermediate level (if we define that as B1-B2). What did you think about the intermediate article in this series if you read/listened to it?

]]> By: Harland https://www.hackingchinese.com/three-things-i-wish-i-had-known-as-an-advanced-student-of-chinese-time-machine-part-3/#comment-125361 Sun, 10 Nov 2024 09:10:29 +0000 https://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=16855#comment-125361 I wish someone would write this same article but for normal students of Chinese. People who don’t have as a goal approaching anear-native level, but who just want to live in China and communicate with Chinese people.
The problem is selection bias, the people who acquire the highest possible levels are going to write the articles.
At least this one doesn’t assume the learner wants to finish by mastering classical Chinese so he can read Tang dynasty poetry and Confucius in the original, something only an infinitesimal number of people who begin studying Chinee set as a goal.

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