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What I'm after is a resource for learning mandarin of you're already a speaker of Cantonese. I've found it surprisingly hard to find a summary of the differenc
by lordnacho 3y ago
What I'm after is a resource for learning mandarin of you're already a speaker of Cantonese.
I've found it surprisingly hard to find a summary of the differences.
By contrast learning German from Danish seemed to have some bits that made it clear reasonably fast.
- peterfirefly 3y agoIf you can read hanzi, can't you just start reading whatever you want in Mandarin? Obviously starting with something easy and then moving on to harder and harder texts, of course. And can't you just start watching TV shows and movies in Mandarin? It should be a lot easier than for us mortals who start out without knowing any Sinitic languages. We have to work hard just to handle the tones and the near total lack of shared vocabulary. I am puzzled that learning Mandarin for you hasn't gone much the same way as learning German did. There is of course the standard way of playing with HelloChinese (or similar apps) and LingQ/Du Chinese (or similar apps) + reading easy readers (Mandarin Companion, Chinese Breeze, and similar). You should be able to speedrun them, compared to the long slog path that we mortals have to take. (A fellow Dane with zero East Asian parentage.)
- lordnacho 3y agoYeah I'm more looking for shortcuts. With German it was really just a matter of seeing a bit of it, and then boom I could read the newspaper with no problem. Cantonese and Mandarin weirdly seem to have wandered further from each other than Danish and German. At least for me, but that may also be lack of exposure.
- Umofomia 3y agoI'm not affiliated nor do I personally have any experience with this service, but have heard good things about the Canto To Mando Blueprint: https://www.thecmblueprint.com/ https://www.thecmblueprint.com/