What goals can you reasonably set when learning Mandarin Chinese?

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What goals can you reasonably set when learning Mandarin Chinese?
Home > Languages > Mandarin > FAQ > Studying > Reasonable Goals

Sky is the limit. The first goal for most people is being able to have a standard conversation with a Mandarin Chinese speaker. This is reasonable. To have advanced conversation with complex sentences will require much more work.

Mastering the written system is the real challenge. This takes years and nobody ever learns all the characters.

Learning the spoken language is much more gratifying than learning how to write.

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