How to Learn Mandarin

The more languages you speak, the broader your metalinguistic coherenuses. The idea of some concepts is just so mind-blowing to a boomer American who only speaks English. When you speak more languages, those concepts become very trivial. And obviously like tone. Tone is interesting to people who do not speak a tonal language.

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