Online Mandarin Chinese Practical Conversational Classes: Free First 1-Hour $0 @ Culturestride

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  CharityCase on 18/09/2021 - 17:54

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  silently grabs my popcorn, waiting for comments…

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    c64 on 18/09/2021 - 18:13

    +1

    Confucius say: Man who fall in vat of molten glass make spectacle of self.

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  Turd on 18/09/2021 - 17:57

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  Any Cantonese lessons?

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    SF3 on 18/09/2021 - 20:31

    Or Teochew.

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      Employeeculturestride @ Culturestride on 19/09/2021 - 11:36

      Yeah we do Cantonese lessons but only in our 1 on 1 "Theory format" for now. Can check it out here: https://culturestride.com/cantonese

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  blighst on 18/09/2021 - 18:16

  Hey OP, out of interest do you have any 'success stories'. I'm a hopeless language learner (mainly from being forced during school), but at the point where I now see a strong benefit in learning a new language. With self-study, how long would it take one to progress through the levels (inb4 bad question/it depends)?

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    Employeeculturestride @ Culturestride on 19/09/2021 - 11:42

    Hey!

    May I ask what you're looking for in 'success stories'? Are you talking about people who've successfully learnt a new language in general or those with us?

    Re: how long would it take to self study, generally I tend to look at language acquisition similar to downloading data just like in software. The critical factors being how often you're learning new stuff, how much you're learning each time and how well are you retaining it.

    Qty of learning over time = frequency * amount of learning per session * retention factor

    If you're looking for ballpark, perhaps 100 hours of active usage in classes would get you roughly conversational? This is just based off the HSK curriculum for Mandarin though if you speculate how long it takes to jump through each of the levels. Obviously can be completely wrong if you already have some foundations or have some variation in any of the factors above.

    Hope that helps, this is just my own personal perspective.

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  Dack Smith on 18/09/2021 - 19:32

  This is very good, learning Chinese in a friendly environment with gorgeous Chinese women and men.

  Mutual socialist trade must continue.

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    Turd on 18/09/2021 - 19:41

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    Just dont talk about Tiananmen Sq or Hong Kong or Tibet or Taiwan

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      Jimothy Wongingtons on 18/09/2021 - 21:23

      What happened at Tiananmen Square???

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      spendmoresavemore on 19/09/2021 - 10:26

      What does learning Mandarin have to do with any of those things. You know, Mandarin is spoken is many countries besides China, but obviously you don't.

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      TightAl on 19/09/2021 - 10:47

      Virtue signalling because he doesn't like china lmao.
      Here's HK protesters in their element: https://youtu.be/A8_YW8SkYBs

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        Turd on 20/09/2021 - 19:17

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5CdoDaz3tM

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          TightAl on 21/09/2021 - 13:43

          @Turd: Appreciate your joke
          HK Protesters approve of violence against women, burning people alive, stoning civilivans.

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            Turd on 21/09/2021 - 14:38

            @TightAl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA2KaEKs1LA

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              TightAl on 21/09/2021 - 22:05

              @Turd: 60 MiNuTeS have such high credibility lolll

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                Turd on 21/09/2021 - 22:14

                @TightAl: Global times is better?

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                Turd on 22/09/2021 - 18:32

                @TightAl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uIOE_nRlxo

                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj7XFjq159I

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  randomdude14 on 18/09/2021 - 21:00

  Hi OP, love to join. Is there a way to do more classes if we like? (more than once a week?)

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    Employeeculturestride @ Culturestride on 19/09/2021 - 11:44

    Hey!

    Yeah absolutely, some of our students are part of multiple conversation groups. Once you sign up, one of our team will have a chat to you after the first lesson to organise your classes accordingly :)

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  oracle365 on 19/09/2021 - 16:57

  is this kids friendly?

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    Employeeculturestride @ Culturestride on 20/09/2021 - 12:56

    This is an adults course so if they're below the teenage years, probably not the best fit, sorry!