I'm quite in a slump... I would like some tips to plan a learning language routine.
1. Time (daily, weekly, monthly)
2. Focus in some area like writing, speaking, reading, listening or combining them
3. How do you organize if you study two or more languages?
4. Do you set goals?
5. Other
I notice that when mandarin native speaker with foreigner people always says that their mandarin is very good or good. Is it really so? Are they referring about pronunciation or accent or simply because they understand them?
When I was in China they always told me that my accent is quite strange like 老外的, so they often believed that I was japanese or korean, and when I said that I'm from Italy and grew up there, they said that my chinese was quite good...
I'm a bit perplexed about it. I know some chinese person that don't speak very well mandarin and have hear tla typical south dialectal pronunciation, so how can they recognize them like native speaker and not foreigner? Maybe does the problem revolve around the accent (voice tone, rhythm..)?
