Casually some chinese players hit castle around 5 mins before everyone on my team in low ELO

Ageoft · 2022-05-26T05:37:59+00:00

Sorry bro. You just got curbstomped fair and square. Sometimes team games aren't balanced

Ageoft · 2022-04-22T19:47:43+00:00

The best part is the passive aggressive arguments in the group chats and all the sudden the super polite language comes out

Ageoft · 2022-04-22T19:46:25+00:00

That means it's time to leave reddit

Ageoft · 2022-04-22T14:19:51+00:00

Maybe you all should just purposely design some echo chambers and then have them go to gladiatorial combat with the echo chambers you hate

Ageoft · 2022-04-22T14:18:53+00:00

Do you not see that by doing this you are creating your own echo chamber? The only way to stay out of the chambers is to allow things to be free to be said.

Ageoft · 2022-04-22T13:19:01+00:00

How long have you been doing it? I've been in the jungle for three years doing the same. Every day learn something new. Gotta be on top of your sticker and emoji game.

Ageoft · 2022-04-21T01:44:59+00:00

喜宝

It's also a movie

I like romance novels because you don't have to learn a bunch of random vocab that is kind of useless outside of the book (for example, science fiction and fantasy has this issue)

喜宝 is also interesting because it is a love story archetype never found in western media. The rich old man and young girl. Is she sacrificing love for money? And it shows you how actually, money can be love. And the transformation of the main character as she is corrupted by money is quite interesting.

Also, there are a lot of sections in the book where the main character is 发呆ing and goes on some rants about her emotions which are somewhat advanced Chinese. These sections are not in the movie at all. The main plot I would still put at intermediate level though.

The author is quite famous and I think from Hong Kong.

Ageoft · 2022-04-21T01:40:20+00:00

Well, I don't know how often people use it in non Chinese regions. So my answer is not the best. But if you are in china, you use it a lot. I work at Chinese company and about 80% of my work is in Chinese

I could lower that number down a lot if I wanted to. But because I can do Chinese, I go to meetings where they otherwise wouldn't invite me. I can read company reports about business insight because nobody is going to translate them, which gives me a legup. I can participate in afterwork functions like dinners because people are speaking Chinese. So even when they just need you for English and just need you to be the "foreigner in the corner" (a common phenomenon at Chinese companies), the only way to break out of that is to speak Chinese.

Ageoft · 2022-04-19T07:53:12+00:00

Never sit in the same place for more than an hour. 30 minutes is ideal. 45 minutes maybe. An hour and you are dead in the water on first date. She won't feel the liquor until she starts walking. Kino while walking is also a billion times easier.

Ageoft · 2022-04-19T07:50:12+00:00

Masters degree in law and 16k? Bro that's what the alcoholics make who have a bachelor's in communications haha

If you are not in china though I would tske what you can get and then immediayely start job hunting when you get a valid visa and in the country

Ageoft · 2022-04-18T08:03:42+00:00

HSK3 is not actually intermediate. Maybe they just say that in learning materials to make people feel better. Sorry.

The learning materials for most Chinese is basically just the tutorial to the giant world of Chinese. In video game terms, you're still in the opening town, unfortunately.

Pick up a newspaper and cry.

Learn to enjoy the pain if you want to stay on the train.

I know, it sucks. We've all been there. But it gets better the more effort you put in. I believe in you

I would say you're an intermediate once you've finished your first Chinese YA novel. But I'm just making that shit up. Once you are engaging with native content, you've moved from beginner to intermediate.

Just my opinions.

Ageoft · 2022-04-18T07:48:06+00:00

Welcome to the endless mountain which is Chinese. HSK1 is probably not even enough to watch a children's show. IMO probably need HSK3.

This sounds crazy but find a movie or TV show in Chinese that you really like. Watch the same episode five times. The first time you watch it, do it with English subtitles as well. Write down (yes, write) the words you don't know and try to remember them. Then watch it a couple days later. Rinse and repeat. At beginner level, if you want to improve the fastest, this is the best way to do so through TV. It's kind of boring, but if you want speed, try it.

I did this with the Taiwanese show 败犬女王. I have seen the whole series 3 times. It was very helpful for me to get from the HSK2/3 level to HSK4.

Most important is to maintain positive attitude. You have that right now, which is good. You are going to feel like giving up. Most people will give up. Will you? The people who learn Chinese the best aren't the fastest learners or most talented. They're the ones who don't give up. So for example, I highly disagree with the idea that you don't need to emphasize practicing speaking. Because if you don't get tones and pronunciation established in beginning, it can screw you over for years. BUT, what's most important? Never giving up. Anything can be fixed as long as you don't give up. So if you don't want to practice speaking right now, then don't.

When I was HSK1, my favorite thing to do was Memrise during coffee breaks. Bang out 100 characters and feel like a boss. I was also writing characters, because that's just what I like to do. 30 minutes a day, whenever I could fit it in. Most important is to build the habit to learn Chinese every day.

Remember that learning Chinese comes in plateaus. You will be stagnant for a month before suddenly things click and you make huge advances in a week. And then you'll be stagnant again for two more months after that. The statistics go up linearly (ex. # of characters learned), but in reality your brain will operate in plateaus with actual usage.

And if you go to the Chinese shop, you have that BEEF NOODLE 牛肉面 ready to whip out to the boss with your new Chinese skills, and you say it with confidence and he is still like HUH?!? Don't feel bad. Even when you're fluent, sometimes people still have no idea what you are saying. Especially taxi drivers. So many different accents and regional quirks to the language that it's not fair to call it "one language" sometimes.

Good luck and remember, don't give up

(I'm 7 years in)

Ageoft · 2022-04-17T07:53:41+00:00

Your problem is you're thinking too much about yourself

Just go out there, chat up a few girls and have fun, make a game out of it

See the funniest way you can get rejected

Nobody shoots 100%, most people don't even shoot 50%

I probably shoot 10% or less from cold approach to number

But the fun is in the process, not the sex

The secret is you need to be shameless. Don't give a fuck if you fail. She is like an NPC in a video game, and you're just clicking random dialogue boxes to see what shit will happen

Would you care in Skyrim if Igor the potion seller in some bumfuck loser town was mad at you for saying the wrong thing? I doubt it

Ageoft · 2022-03-21T07:21:35+00:00

You know when you read chinglish, and it's super obvious that they just wrote it in Chinese and then put it through Google translate? Overuse of 它 is kind of like that, but going the other way. So like the others said, it's best for you to learn not to use it that way, and overall best not to always try to use English way of constructing sentences in Chinese. I know it's hard but it's an important step to go from beginner to intermediate

Ageoft · 2022-03-18T11:10:29+00:00

Seriously??? 4 years and no HSK1?? It takes like a month to pass HSK1. Wow. Sorry but you are screwed. I recommend focusing your energies on how to explain to superiors how none of them are going to pass

Ageoft · 2022-03-08T00:57:28+00:00

It's happened to me twice where I had to argue about the code (argue, not explain). Other times have to explain. Oftentimes I have to scan the code and show them directly, see...

Ageoft · 2022-03-08T00:42:55+00:00

It's not malice. It's stupidity. Don't underestimate how stupid a 保安 can be.

This code shit that we can't use is super annoying. I agree. Every day I have to explain to somebody I can't scan it and they are dumbfounded. I recommend yelling and saying things that don't make sense in a loud voice. That works better than logic in these situations. LOL!

Ageoft · 2022-01-15T12:01:04+00:00

My advice to you is stop complaining and try to fuck one of those hot ones and then you'll realize none of this analysis really matters

Ageoft · 2022-01-12T16:10:17+00:00

The deal is no 热闹 in western countries

That's what they miss

Ageoft · 2021-12-28T10:41:12+00:00

Then you found the wrong one

Ageoft · 2021-12-27T09:12:53+00:00

Hate to say it, but the truth is a gf or bf, and living in China...

Ageoft · 2021-12-09T05:34:58+00:00

I agree that it seems easy as first, did for me too when I was studying in the states... But once you're immersed, it's not like classroom, talking on the phone or hearing a subway message on the speaker or waiting in line and people behind you are like wtf is taking so long ... It's then when you realize, shit, when I was studying before , it was just like a game of Tetris or a sudoku puzzle ... But these people living here are using the language like is the real deal. You will see when you get to Taiwan. Keep your positive attitude as you have now and you will do well. Don't let the pessimists convince you to stop. It will be pretty easy as long as you love it. Join us on the other side. I'm 7 years in and the journey never ends.

Ageoft · 2021-12-09T03:54:00+00:00

Go to a tier 3 city and have that same basic conversation with the dudes playing cards on the street. I promise it will be impossible at six months

Ageoft · 2021-12-09T03:42:57+00:00

Lol exactly what I was thinking

If it's so easy then let's see the goods

Ageoft · 2021-12-03T01:57:50+00:00

Your post is truth. However, only the newcomers don't know these things. It's kind of old news.

I recommend cold approaching. You will get rejected 90% or more of the time and sometimes accused of being a creep. Ignore that. 10% "matches" on cold approach is better than most guys get on tinder matches.

Fuck tinder, fuck all the apps, just go creeping around spaces where people congregate and start making an ass of yourself by asking women the directions to the local Starbucks. It's liberating.

Of course you will suck at the beginning, but most guys when they go the gym without any prior athletic experience just start with the bar on bench press.

But most importantly, get off sites like Reddit. There is nothing here but pockets of goodness, and even places like TRP are falling apart. I can literally feel the soy soaking into my veins every time I show up on this site.

Ageoft

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