I've spent a lot of time, money, and energy learning Chinese. The thing I find frustrating is that there is really not a lot of middle ground between the widely-held assumption that Chinese is really hard (what language isn't!?) and OH MY GOD YOUR CHINESE IS SO GOOD, when all you have said is an address, 谢谢， or ... Full Comment>>
acrich on eloise1 's blog Top 8 Ways to Improve Your Chinese Spoken Language(22 comments)
I've spent a lot of time, money, and energy learning Chinese. The thing I find frustrating is that there is really not a lot of middle ground between the widely-held assumption that Chinese is really hard (what language isn't!?) and OH MY GOD YOUR CHINESE IS SO GOOD, when all you have said is an address, 谢谢， or ... Full Comment>>