I don’t like any China expert or you may call it sinologist whose Chinese sucks. I can’t help sneering every time I heard some foreigners talk about China and explain why china did this or did that, then I heard his spoken Chinese sounds like a moron....Honestly, I understand How difficult it is to learn Chinese. And I personally suspect that the current regime doesn’t want foreigners to fully master this language. Because I checked the Chinese textbook HSK, and I found even the highest level textbook looks like an elementary in my eyes, not mention to the Confucius academies who imbedded the propaganda within teaching. By the way I was a little surprised on how slow you guys found it out when I read the your media publicly criticized it. Because it’s such obvious, I thought you guys know that. So I could imagine how frustrated these students who painstakingly have learned so many years and would feel still hard to talk with native Chinese freely, or still remain on some shallow topics. And I understand why some talk people out of learning it. For example, I watched a French YouTube made by topido, and one of the reasons the you’ber made is that: You can’t get useful information by learning this language he explained: You learn at class something like “ Zhong Guo Da, Ri Ben Xiao ( China is big, Japan is small), then you graduate and read Chinese news paper still “Zhong Guo Da, Ri Ben Xiao”. See, You only got propaganda. I couldn’t help laughing and agreed with him. But I thought afterwards that his Chinese must be good because he wasn’t fooled. The logic is simple here. Language is for communication, when you find you can’t do it, you must realize sth is wrong. Apart from the education failure, there exists another big obstacle for Chinese leaner, that is, to keep the propaganda out of your study. Keep the propaganda out. That’s not easy, even for Chinese, it’s super hard as we have it everywhere. But things will evolve. I fell into the trap when I was a primary student, but soon after I found it out. (That’s another story) Anyway, if you wanna learn Chinese, you have to be intelligent, you have to be smart. And if you speak well, we Chinese will know you’re smart the moment you open your mouth, otherwise… You know…
