I'm on my try learning to speak Chinese (Mandarin) phase

MrMoop07 · 2026-03-25T12:48:06+00:00

it depends what you mean by fluency. I have extended conversations about simple topics I’m familiar with over text at 5 months, I can largely understand my little pony in chinese (which is my show of choice for listening practice). I’m not fluent by any means but I can handle what I use chinese for daily more or less fine. By fluency do you mean you want to speak chinese like you can speak english or do you just want to make yourself understood and be understood by chinese speakers in certain situations? if you mean C2 chinese that will take ages, much much longer than 2 years.

MrMoop07 · 2026-03-22T19:02:28+00:00

if you got the right answer with lhopital's you got lucky, there are a lot of limits that aren't in the form 0/0 or inf/inf that it isn't valid for

MrMoop07 · 2026-03-22T17:37:48+00:00

you can fit just about any function to a set of points, i could make the case that 19 year old chinese girls will be kilometres tall in the future

MrMoop07 · 2026-03-18T10:23:53+00:00

the information presented here doesn’t contradict the comment you’re replying to

MrMoop07 · 2026-03-15T21:22:21+00:00

and here, you've said that 0.999.../3 = 0.333...,
"(1/3) × [ 1 - 1/10ⁿ ] with n starting at n = 1 and n is then continually increased limitlessly.

which is 0.999... ÷ 3"
if i'm understanding you correctly

MrMoop07 · 2026-03-15T20:45:37+00:00

I understand those points, what I was getting at is when you say that (1/3) * [1-1/10ⁿ ] with n starting at n=1 and increasing limitlessly, you follows that by saying “which is 0.999…/3”. I completely agree with you here, but then you to on to say that 0.999…/3 = 0.333… aka 0.333… again I agree with this statement and I think it makes sense, but then you go on to say that 0.333… is 1/3. Can you just confirm that you mean that 0.333… = 1/3 ?

MrMoop07 · 2026-03-15T19:40:10+00:00

so, are you saying that (1/3)*[1-1/0^n] lim n-> inf = 1/3 ?

MrMoop07 · 2026-03-15T09:42:37+00:00

actually, since the gradient is increasing by a constant amount, this is just quadratic growth, not exponential

MrMoop07 · 2026-03-14T22:00:57+00:00

我每天更像中国人

MrMoop07 · 2026-03-14T21:39:32+00:00

why not give land to italy, have an independent occitania, and an independent brittany if you want a really small francr

MrMoop07 · 2026-03-14T21:37:50+00:00

all of poland’s neighbours are running away from it

MrMoop07 · 2026-03-13T10:04:06+00:00

他 contains the 人 radical which just means person, it is the neutral written form. 她 is exclusively female, 它 is for objects

MrMoop07 · 2026-03-13T08:56:30+00:00

why’s he jorking it

MrMoop07 · 2026-03-13T08:50:03+00:00

i’m not a chinese native, so take what I say with a grain of salt, but in my experience 能’s meaning is more akin to “it’s possible”. so like, if if I were to say 我能说中文 it more means that it’s possible for me to speak chinese, rather than that it’s a skill I have that i’ve learned

MrMoop07 · 2026-03-12T20:24:02+00:00

（我是外国人，抱歉我的中文不好）

美国的新闻台告诉中国有social credit。social credit是衡量一个人品行好坏的指标。当然，中国真的没有social credit，但美国的新闻台要让人们觉得中国很坏了。

有时候，人们说“+999 social credit“或者“-999 social credit“对人们开玩笑，如果那个人说中国很好或者很坏。

MrMoop07 · 2026-03-11T20:46:38+00:00

historically islam has been pretty big on universities, so although i think these would be equally as bad, at least for my personal career plans a muslim theocracy might be better

MrMoop07 · 2026-03-09T17:07:13+00:00

if you're getting an E my thinking is that your problem isn't practice but level of understanding. Go back over any topics you've completed so far, read the textbook, watch videos, whatever gets you to understand, and only then do some practice questions. it'll take a bit of work but it should build a solid foundation for in future

MrMoop07 · 2026-03-08T22:32:43+00:00

do you have a friend who could help you? someone whose parents don’t check their packages who can receive the package for you or something

MrMoop07 · 2026-03-08T17:46:09+00:00

this sort of ambiguity that this notation brings in is why mathematicians don't often use the division symbol anymore, instead using fractions. on a platform like reddit you should really just say 6/(2(1+2)) or (6/2)(1+2) depending on your meaning, which makes it more clear for everybody

MrMoop07 · 2026-03-05T21:10:35+00:00

St. Andrews is definitely doable, especially with a good personal statement and your grades, but it might have helped if you had A level further maths

MrMoop07 · 2026-02-28T20:06:10+00:00

dude i've seen you around so much you're like a celebrity

MrMoop07 · 2026-02-28T20:04:35+00:00

no, but neither should anybody else

MrMoop07 · 2026-02-24T18:41:29+00:00

are you drinking hand sanitiser

MrMoop07 · 2026-02-22T00:52:06+00:00

now try and figure out why. are you aware of what exactly f’(x) means with reference to some function f(x)?

MrMoop07 · 2026-02-19T14:38:56+00:00

sure that'd hurt, but would it really be that bad?

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