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Re:“Prestudy”: Learning Chinese Through Reading by oh-kumudo on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @05:30AM (#17916375)
I echo this approach.

If it is not for the hollywood movies/western RPGs, I won't find my inner calling to conquer English at all. I picked up writing by simply want to have a reasonable discussion with people on the Reddit (well, that was years ago, not sure it is possible nowadays).

To some degree, I see there is similarity between how human/algorithm approaches language. The trick is always data-driven: expose yourself/model more to the true distribution, which in this case the society where the language is used natively, the more the better.

Re:“Prestudy”: Learning Chinese Through Reading by hderms on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @10:53AM (#17918504)
It's clearly worked for you because you are using what I would consider very idiomatic phrases. Good job, this is obviously not easy to do.