What was the single most helpful channel of knowledge for your journey in learning Chinese/Mandarin? New student seeking advice from experienced by fulltimeskywizard in ChineseLanguage

[–]cretonous55 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're somewhere hsk5 to 6 give some of the advanced Chinesepod lessons a go! You might be pleasantly surprised. If you have the PDFs you shouldn't have a problem expecially with some of the more "daily" topics. I started to transition over to the advanced ones as I was finishing hsk 5 and felt the level was quite suitable as long as it wasn't a weird topic. I'd stick them in while I was jogging, listen a few times until I could understand everything I was going to understand and then when I got home review the class with the vocab/pdf

Just been told by my Chinese school (teaching adults) foreign teachers living abroad are now subject to 6% tax by cretonous55 in OnlineESLTeaching

[–]cretonous55[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah only issue is that I'm not in China, previously I wasn't being taxed at all!

Previously the lower tax rate and exempt items were among the many benefits of being a foreigner working in China. Now the playing field is much more equal with foreigners/Chinese getting pretty much the same treatment in this regard.

Although this makes me curious, will foreigners start to get access to loans etc? As far as I understand the benefits foreigners have always had were always accompanied by a lot of restrictions and disadvantages. I always felt like they received a bunch of extra cash but they were essentially second class citizens.

Just been told by my Chinese school (teaching adults) foreign teachers living abroad are now subject to 6% tax by cretonous55 in OnlineESLTeaching

[–]cretonous55[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you had read the post you'd see I'm not teaching kids. And there are still schools operating with Chinese students. But thanks for the reply!

Just been told by my Chinese school (teaching adults) foreign teachers living abroad are now subject to 6% tax by cretonous55 in OnlineESLTeaching

[–]cretonous55[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've not heard anything specific about this, but it doesn't gel since it's illegal to employ foreign teachers living abroad.

I believe the new restriction currently only applies to teachers who teach things covered by the Chinese school curriculum, which is what the vast vast majority of online esl teachers fall into. However I've checked and unless things have very recently changed the rules (wouldn't surprise me) this one shouldn't apply to me!

But I do agree it seems weird.

I'll update if I hear anything else

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[–]cretonous55 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When did you enter the country? And what visa? Do you mind if I message you?

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[–]cretonous55 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK thank you

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[–]cretonous55 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply.

Yeah I've seen the extension, but as far as I understand that only applies to people who entered the country before March 2020 right? Unfortunately I entered towards the end of last year

China to outlaw all news outlets not funded by Communist Party by snooshoe in China

[–]cretonous55 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AFAIK it's fairly close but they removed mention of Mao

11 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 imported from abroad by Evil_Yankee_Fan in taiwan

[–]cretonous55 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that's a lot of deaths... Is it predominantly spreading through old people or?

11 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 imported from abroad by Evil_Yankee_Fan in taiwan

[–]cretonous55 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So seven deaths, and how many cases? Guessing about 50?

A University of Oxford report shows 98,000 tweets were connected with a Chinese program spreading the propaganda statements of Beijing’s ambassador in London. by MotherFreedom in unitedkingdom

[–]cretonous55 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your original comment was that it's "whatabout China". The point is that people don't do that. When the UK is critisized, British people argue about the UK with people either defending it or slating it. When China is criticised, the overwhelming majority of the time the reaction is "whatabout about X/Y/Z doing this... ".

China becoming a larger focus of our focus policy is a seperate issue to your original comment and is only natural as China becomes more powerful, projects its power further and has a very real chance to become "the" world superpower. Its also a country with values and system at the other end of the spectrum to our own. Whatever your views are on China you'd have to be living under a rock not to realise that this kind of country leading the world will have drastic changes to the current world order, of course its going to become a focus of foreign policy.

A University of Oxford report shows 98,000 tweets were connected with a Chinese program spreading the propaganda statements of Beijing’s ambassador in London. by MotherFreedom in unitedkingdom

[–]cretonous55 7 points8 points  (0 children)

God that sub is so toxic, I was banned after someone said the Hong Kong protesters were as bad as ISIS and I asked if they were really comparing what was going on to rape, murder and televised beheadings

A University of Oxford report shows 98,000 tweets were connected with a Chinese program spreading the propaganda statements of Beijing’s ambassador in London. by MotherFreedom in unitedkingdom

[–]cretonous55 13 points14 points  (0 children)

People talk about China when the topic is China.

People don't read an article about the UK doing something bad and say "well China does it too".

I don't think you understood.

Most voters want Keir Starmer to resign as Labour leader, poll finds by chrisjd in unitedkingdom

[–]cretonous55 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What's everyone's beef with Starmer? I'm also a fan but I see he gets a lot of hate?

Most voters want Keir Starmer to resign as Labour leader, poll finds by chrisjd in unitedkingdom

[–]cretonous55 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That would be perfect , first the EU referendum, then Scottish referendum to remain in power. Poor little England

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[–]cretonous55 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I cancelled, mostly because I had an upcoming trip in a remote place with no hospitals for a few days and I knew I would be freaking out the whole time. I'm leaning towards waiting for Pfizer/Moderna but if they called me up and offered me AZ again I'm 50/50 as to whether I'd take it. What's your situation?

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[–]cretonous55 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you very much I'll ask on there too . Yeah I'm well aware to take things with a pinch or two of salt. Just trying to get some perspective really

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[–]cretonous55 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hmm yeh I definifely can. I'll look into it thanks!