username — Taemintatee
nickname — You can just call me by my real name, Sophia >w<
activity level — I'm on every day~
english — First language, yes
chinese — Yes, but not much. I'd say level 2/10?

Why do you want to learn Chinese?

I'm interested in learning Chinese for a lot of reasons. If I don't end up being in the music or entertainment business when I'm older, my backup plan is to be a linguist. I love learning about different alphabets, sentence structures, pronunciations, cultures, and everything else. Secondly, regardless of my career choice when I'm older, I want to visit China often and possibly live there for a while. I'm young (still 13 years old), and it's proven that languages are easier to learn at a young age, so I feel as if now would be a good time to start. I am taking Mandarin classes in the high school I will be attending starting in September, but I'm not sure if school lessons will help very much, so it's always a good idea to have extra help and study guides.

Anything you want to learn specifically regarding Chinese?

can be in bullet points.

» The characters, , punctuation, and word/sentence spacing. I know how to read pinyin, but the characters are too hard for me to learn on my own.

» How to differentiate the four tones when speaking to a native. I can only tell them apart when they're speaking slowly.

Should others join this class? If so, why?

can be in bullet points.

» Yes!! Because Mandarin Chinese (and all forms of Chinese in general) is considered to be a really hard language, I feel like having someone teach them to you personally helps a lot.

» I also feel like a lot of new relationships between students can be created through this >w<
 

comments/questions?

Will there be audio/video companions for every lesson?
 

how did you find my language section?

Through others' blog posts ^^

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