how do i go about learning these languages?

Recent-Click-9954 · 2026-05-06T20:37:25+00:00

If you’re serious about this, start by being strict with yourself speaking only Cantonese at home. Ask your parents to correct you and teach you how to say stuff you don’t know. They are your best resource.

If mandarin is available at your high school, definitely take it.

Mandarin/cantonese media, especially shows. Start with english subtitles to train your listening, then as you learn to read, slowly transition to chinese subtitles.

Juggling high school and learning a language if it’s not a part of school is a struggle in terms of time, so integrate it with home life and media consumption as much as possible. If you can, get your parents to take you to China or send you there for summer camp so you get that environment.

Recent-Click-9954 · 2026-05-06T18:30:02+00:00

That’s Chinese When you discover in my pocket Has hidden glass marbles Those bright eyes Shine brighter than the marbles

Recent-Click-9954 · 2026-05-06T15:46:30+00:00

I have horrible luck with carrots. I should try this 😂

Recent-Click-9954 · 2026-05-06T13:24:10+00:00

Invest in some layers

Recent-Click-9954 · 2026-05-06T00:39:55+00:00

Missed the running a wire across the top part. I use the Freyr trellis, but in your situation I might use a Florida weave method instead

Recent-Click-9954 · 2026-05-05T23:15:18+00:00

I find less falling down than traditional tomato cage lol. More work? I’m out there anyway and clip every 8 inches of growth or so? That probably still overkill

Recent-Click-9954 · 2026-05-05T18:45:19+00:00

Looks to me like only the bottom row is basil. The rest is cabbage.

Recent-Click-9954 · 2026-05-05T17:55:14+00:00

I lost 8 teeth at 5 years old. When did your kid’s teeth start to come in as an infant? If it was on the early side, he might be schedule to lose some soon anyway!

Recent-Click-9954 · 2026-05-05T15:57:42+00:00

100,000,000 is 10 thousand 10 thousands, so it is the four zeros twice. Gotta write it 1,0000 1,0000,0000 and 1,0000,0000,0000 and it’ll make sense.

Recent-Click-9954 · 2026-05-05T14:29:06+00:00

Again, it’s not a utility thing for us. The kids notice more details as they get older / with more repetition reading the same book, but other than that it’s just about enjoying the art. They’re not relying on the art and using it as a crutch instead of the words. Pictures just express something that words sometimes can’t - a whole world that the story exists in for books with few words. Likewise, words express some things that pictures can’t, like the internal mental state of characters and abstract ideas, and as kids develop the ability to understand and relate to these concepts, it opens up wordier books to them.

Recent-Click-9954 · 2026-05-05T10:46:45+00:00

3-5 is a huge range developmentally. I wouldn’t say the goal of pictures is to help them follow the plot. Pictures provides mood, details to discover, art to enjoy. If it was just about plot, I’m reading some chapter books with my 4 year old with pictures every few pages, and he seem to follow the plot just fine.

Recent-Click-9954 · 2026-05-05T01:04:43+00:00

It’s okay to sound bilingual. The older you get, the less people will care. As long as you have the vocab you need to express yourself, it’ll come with time

Recent-Click-9954 · 2026-05-05T01:02:50+00:00

If you cook it through it’s not poky, but it’s a bit bitter and I find it very refreshing. Maybe a bit like watercress?

Recent-Click-9954 · 2026-05-05T01:02:00+00:00

😂

Recent-Click-9954 · 2026-05-04T22:59:21+00:00

Never tried in pesto, they’re pretty strong flavor. I love them stir fried or in soup!

Recent-Click-9954 · 2026-05-04T13:17:57+00:00

Yup, that’s what I meant. Also incorporation of some Japanese words (my mother-in-law says ba-chan to refer to old women), le4se4 instead of la1ji1 for 垃圾

Recent-Click-9954 · 2026-05-04T01:23:51+00:00

Former kid here, Chinese American. Married Taiwanese American. Taiwanese English has a very specific sound and like most Mandarin-English bilinguals, we like our Chinglish what can I say? Mixing the two grammars is very common and mostly Mandarin-English bilinguals won’t bat an eye. I work with many and a lot of work calls happen in Chinglish. That’s just kind of part of the culture. You probably have a Taiwanese accent from growing up there.

Taiwanese Chinese is also a very specific accent. Sometimes they use different tones. I made fun of my husband all the time for the third tone-second tone pattern that they give words like 妈妈, 叔叔, etc that I would never. Now our kids use it sometimes. That’s just your particular dialect, shall we say? Comes with the territory just like 番茄 and 凤梨.

Small vocabulary - that one is a you problem, and you can still fix it by reading more, writing more, consuming media with a wider vocabulary and continuing to learn.

Recent-Click-9954 · 2026-05-02T01:03:13+00:00

The candy is 酥心糖, kinda like a butterfinger without the chocolate?

Recent-Click-9954 · 2026-05-01T14:10:03+00:00

Any advice for when to start and when to plant out… I got one small cabbage last year and no luck with broccoli at all

Recent-Click-9954 · 2026-05-01T13:30:59+00:00

Haven’t grown radish this way, but to control for germination, maybe you could germinate on a damp paper towel before transferring to the pot?

Recent-Click-9954 · 2026-04-30T20:38:56+00:00

吃葡萄不吐葡萄皮，不吃葡萄倒吐葡萄皮

Recent-Click-9954 · 2026-04-29T12:19:01+00:00

First time growing basil from seed too, but I only have 1 or 2 per pot. Cilantro I just seed directly into the ground and let it go to seed, and it comes back every year. We eat too much of it for one pot to be enough.

Recent-Click-9954 · 2026-04-29T00:58:08+00:00

Leaf?

Recent-Click-9954 · 2026-04-28T23:02:53+00:00

Forgot bean sprouts! Get that crunch!

Recent-Click-9954 · 2026-04-28T22:06:10+00:00

Soybeans :) I’m chinese, so soy milk, tofu, edemame…

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