Polyglot & Glossika Founder Mike Campbell on How to Master Mandarin
The Language Mastery Show
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Getting Rid of Your Noun Lists
When you're first starting a language, get rid of all your noun lists and just on your verbs and adjectives. This is where the magic happens. You can produce so many new shades of meaning by changing the verb structure. For example, in russian, i can just add in the middle of the verb, i can add the two letters n u, which pronounced no, into the middle of a russian verb to make that verb sound like it was an immediate action that just finished. Isn't that cool? Ses an infix, that's o. So i can say, o, i might be looking at you. I might use the its the same route as english
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