Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 1/8/2023
Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 1/8/2023
Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So how’s it going?
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Morena all!
I'm sitting down to my breakfast of pepper with a bit of scrambled eggs on toast.
Are there any Te Reo or Mandarin speakers here?
I've been super hooked on ADV Podcasts and learning all about China, so now I have the urge to learn Mandarin.
I think I'll be having another downsize day where I try to declutter as much as I can, but it gets exponentially harder as I get closer to only having essentials.
What's everyone else up to?
I speak Mandarin, that's like my first language I suppose.
Cool, so there's definitely speakers around.
I wonder if there's a Taiwan instance..
I hate to link this but uh can't find a better resource with quick Google
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChineseLanguage/wiki/faq
Essentially you'll want to decide to go with Simplified or Traditional mandarin, Pinyin vs Zhuyin. Taiwan and HK use Traditional, you'll learn through Zhuyin, while China/SG/MY (and many others) use Simplified, learnt through Pinyin. Ignore dialects eg. Cantonese, Hokkien all that for now.
It's totally fine to link a reddit post as a source. We can still use the info from there, just better not to engage.
Even better, repost all the info here so we don't have to give them traffic. I might find a language learning instance and do that.
InB4 "but that's stealing": Spez has already established that Reddit owns the content, not the users, so you're stealing from Reddit, not the OP.
Thanks! I will be focusing on Mandarin as used in mainland.
I know there are a few te reo learners around, not sure about fluent speakers. You can probably find Mandarin night classes pretty easily.
I think when learning a language, having a class that you attend with others can really help with motivation. I did a couple of years of (mostly) in person classes of te reo, and once they stopped it was a lot harder to keep the motivation to continue learning.