After three years its still shit, but then i never got time to stay chinese in a school. Too busy with masters and now job. I self study myself but job takes most of my time
But but ,everytime i try to speak chinese, i realise most taiwanese are interested in speaking english to me than chinese. They will see a foreigner speaking chinese as interesting but they wanna keep switching back to english even if u wanna keep talking to them in chinese
Never let anyone know you speak English. Tell them Klingon is your mother tongue.
Iāve actually considered telling people Iām from some random country whenever they start speaking english to me after I have them repeat what they just mumbled quietly.
Iāve done this when an old biddy wanted to let everybody in the train station know that she speaks English, loudly. āMe no speaka dee Anglais!ā.
I do that when the cults and churches approach me to teach me about their faith.
They try first in Chinese:
-Ting bu dong.
Then in English (Iāve sometimes spoken in English, and they will follow you and talk to you in English):
-No hablo inglƩs.
Fortunately, they donāt know Spanish (though maybe I should learn an obscure language in case somebody does)
I must warn you: there are a lot of Taiwanese who speak Spanish fluently, either they lived in Argentina or studied it for work/fun.
So no cursing in public in Spanish. Nor deflecting using Spanish is possible.
Oh nooo! I curse to aggressive drivers all the time, but in Chilean slang, so I guess not even other Spanish speakers would understand 
I assume youāre speaking from experience. 
Yeah, itās surprising how many people are multilingual here. Better just to ham it up with a weird English accent than to pretend you speak Farsi or something.
Mine is ābad but robustā, to borrow a phrase from Le Carre. I can get by in pretty much any context, and I have a random smattering of advanced vocabulary, but mostly I sound like a petulant nine-year-old girl.
Have you considered working in TV?
Despite my crap vocabulary, Iāve been told (by reliable people) that I speak reasonably accent-free Taiwanese Mandarin (ie., not āstandardā Mandarin) ā¦ but apparently I sound like a kid. Iām not sure what that even means. Itād be interesting to hear oneās own accent the way native speakers hear it.
Worse. Much worse.
Maybe you say éé instead of čŖå·±. Or é£ä½ instead of é£č£”.
Some foreigners speak very good Chinese, like those who are on one of those awful talk shows. I feel like they could all work in counter Chinese espionage for CIA or something.
I used to get phoned up to be on those shows, when I was younger and more handsome. To this day, dont know how the recruiters got my number.
I didnt do it though.
Probably someone you know gave it to them.
I actually find it quite sad that so many of them are housewives when they speak such good Chinese. They could become a spy or something.
There are some videos along these lines, if you havenāt seen them (though more about how languages sound rather than specific accents). Found them quite interesting.
Hijo deā¦
@eatdrinktravellife is busily gathering information in a number of threads. I wonder why and for what purpose?
Yeah, I sort of assumed I must be lisping something, but I canāt figure out what it is and nobody has given me a helpful explanation.