How Do You Speak Like Colloquial Chinese?

I spent a lot of time in high school and a bit in college and in Mandarin Chinese. At the beginning of my study it was very formal like you're still learning the basic grammatical sentence patterns. But eventually as I got really into it and started trying to figure out I went to Beijing two times and soyou know I kind of had to figure out how do I actually speak like colloquial Chinese and not sound like an alien to people. It took me a long time but there's something about linguistic determinism like sacred warfare hypothesis thing that is definitely true.

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