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In what capacity you are sure learning it will be a certain waste of time? Anyway here's a Chinese social media site with many people working in SFBA. I guess

• soulofmischief 7y ago
  Just in the capacity that I have a lot to learn that I deem essential and research already takes up the majority of my free time. Not that I won't try again, but I know it's an ordeal for me which takes lots of time I already don't have right now. I've taken and failed two separate language courses, not due to a lack of trying. Learning foreign languages seems quite hard for me due to the nature through which I learned to read. I taught myself to read between age 2-3 and kind of just coasted on that for a long time, since I had mostly subpar public education. But failing at multiple foreign languages has taught me the need to step back and have a better understanding of language in general before tackling it again. But Mandarin is so far left field from other popular languages. Learning the Greek and Cyrillic alphabet was hard enough. I have severe ADHD and memory problems. I have used Anki for a long time and spaced repetition alone takes up a lot of my time. And the amount of symbols to learn for Mandarin is staggering. Last year I took up memory training after studying the techniques of a few memory masters. I'm doing everything I can to improve my memory but just skipping to Mandarin right now is not a smart or efficient use of my time.