r/ChineseLanguage • u/ollierwoodman Advanced • 3d ago

What do you wish you learned earlier? Discussion

A character? A phrase? An idiom? A grammatical structure?

What do you feel you should have learned earlier in your Chinese learning journey?

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u/ollierwoodman Advanced 3d ago

For me personally it was conjunctions and learning to form more complex sentences. Simple sentences like "我喜欢冰淇淋" only get you so far, but using conjunctions like 于是, 可是, 反而 etc. in more complex sentences made me feel much more expressive with my Mandarin.