/cyber/ - Cyberpunk & Science Fiction

>>27194

Thank you very much. I was thinking about moving out of my country, but I don't speak Chinese. is it a hard language to learn?

>>27207

I really want to know this too…

>>27212

Over 20K characters in just the basic subset of mandarin. Fuck that shit.

>>27213

Well you probably don't use them all…

>>27207

> I don't speak Chinese. is it a hard language to learn?

Chinese is one of the hardest languages for native English speakers to learn. It is a category 5 language with little similarity with English.

http://www.effectivelanguagelearning.com/language-guide/language-difficulty

Luckily modern language learning is much easier than it used to be. You can get far using Anki, Skype and grammar books. Anki allows you to memorise words quickly and there are lots of Chinese speakers who will trade Chinese lessons for English lesson on Skype for free.

I don't suggest going over to China without knowing the language or having any ancillary skills as the only jobs available would be teaching English.

There are lots of English Language Speakers who travel to China (or any Asian country) to teach English without knowing the native language and they are generally considered scum by the locals, failures who couldn't cut it in their own country and had to leave.

>>27208

>tfw no starship gf

>>27192

>implying women care about football

>implying football is anything 'cozy' to begin with

football ruined that image

>>27216

>Japanese

>harder than Polish

ahahahhah holy shit

>>27226

>anything

>harder than Arabic

>>27225

Maybe, they're BR BR HUEHUEHUE.

>inb4 7x1

It still hurts. That's why gerbrouzouf has no friends at all.

>>27232

what is Ithkuil

>>27232

I find it pretty easy. My parents tried to make me learn it and, even when younger me hated the idea of learning, I learned to read+write and sorta speak it enough to get by. I stopped because everyone realized I was miserable learning it.

>>27232

Arabic isn't bad compared to tonal languages, but holy fuck is the orthography fucked

might have to do with half the speakers being illiterate

>>27288

>>27278

idk mang, my Arabian friend tried to teach me a few words and I was lost.

>>27324

I picked up the basics in a half-year course. It's an asshole language, that's for sure, but it's still easier for an English speaker to pick up than something like Korean.

>>27226

Kurwa, if you know Polish, the best thing I've found is to tell everyone you hate 'I love you' is 'Te Jestez Glupie Murzyn'

In America Seattle probably

>>27324

>>27329

just learn to vomit in a civilized manner and you'll speak arab

>>27521

I only really said Seattle because of Shadowrun

>>27533

>Kansas City

Thanks, Mr. Dubs. That could actually be doable for me.

>>27575

No problem; get to it before the city starts more renovations outside the Plaza lest the housing prices will be as bad as they are on either coast.

>>27194

>>27207

>>27221

>speak chinese

Ugh, this is one of my pet peeves. You can't "speak chinese," any more than you can "speak european." Mandarin and Cantonese have less in common than Spanish and Portuguese have (someone who only speaks one cannot understand the other without a fuckton of linguistic gymnastics), yet you don't call THOSE the same language, do you? Hell, even people who speak Cantonese can't speak Toishan, or even understand it in many cases, and that's usually just viewed as a dialect of Canto.

The only way you could possibly refer to "Chinese" as a language is if you're referring to the written language, which is the same across all the Chinese languages, but only because it's not phonetic the way the Latin alphabet is.

>>27741

They Obviously mean 'Standard Chinese' aka Mandarin, aka 普通話.

Stop being pedantic.

>>27793

The guy gave some good info. It was a justified complaint.

>>27741

One bean fried rice, chummer

>>27533

>techie scum go home

fucking luddites

>>27808

Those people are about as anti-tech as the yuppies were punks; they're against the assholes wanting to get a quick buck over class warfare by forcing people from the homes and jacking the prices up in anticipation for new residents. "Techie" is synonymous with "Yuppie" these days and that's the one thing people like you don't seem to understand about this; http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/

It's happening nearly everywhere these days, tho.

>>27816

>implying 99% of those anti-tech frisco shazbots didn't do the exact same thing with previous black and hispanic tenants

Its the pot calling the kettle black, frisco and seattle were already gentrified the problem is that people with even more brouzouf are moving in, so boo-hoo

On the other hand consider how frisco has literally nothing but tech to keep it afloat, its no longer a major trade hub, all industries closed back in the 80s and even the famous naval base that provided a lot of maintenance jobs to civilians its gone

If tech leaves frisco it will end up a shithole like detroit, and I say good riddance to those whiny fags and dykes

Hong Kong

Singapore

Taipei.

>>27194

Oh wow, never thought about that, China perfectly melds low regulation cheap third world and first world high tech industry and brouzouf.

Pretty cool. I bet China will be the world centre for human bio hacking (implants and tech mods for people). I'm hoping for bionic eyes in my lifetime.

>>27194

That feel when you've been to Shenzhen but not long enough to explore it thoroughly. They do have some nice malls though. The city feels like it was built right into the forest.

>>35275

Oh but the huawei HQ is the most cyber place I've ever been in.

>>35253

>>35252

>t-thank you based Japanese influence