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Re:Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard (1992) by henrymercer on Monday April 21, 2014 @09:42PM (#7625268)
"Spaced repitition software has significantly reduced the barrier to literacy; I read my first novel after ~10 months"

That is impressive. I took two years of Chinese in college and did not get anywhere close to that ability. How many hours a day did you practice Chinese during that 10 months?

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Re:Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard (1992) by msvan on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @08:31AM (#7627216)
I was borderline obsessed. Full-time studying in Beijing. With the caveat that reading that first novel was very much a test of endurance.
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