I Have Around 50 Drafts In Progress Sitting And Waiting Their Turn Because I Have Been Bitten By The

I have around 50 drafts in progress sitting and waiting their turn because I have been bitten by the muse of inspiration and I am on a roll.

In other words, I was bitten by a cat but an actual correlation is yet to be determined.

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My cooking skills (I still have a lot to learn but I make a good lentil stew)

My commitment and dedication

My music taste. (My music library ranges from mongolian heavy metal to numbers from soviet musicals, so there's always something unexpected when on shuffle)

My love for books

My interest in Chinese and all China related things.

Discovered that there are regular flights between Germany and Mongolia so decided to give Mongolian another try. I was pleasantly shocked to discover that there are now more and better learning resources available.

My main mistake was relying solely on english teaching material, I completely forgot that I know other languages e.g. Chinese and the resources found on Baidu look promising.

I might make a post with the resources and material at some point, but for now I need to sort out what's useful and what's not suitable yet.

Who knows, perhaps a summer exploring Mongolia isn't such a distant ethereal dream after all.

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Проклятие русалки by Green Apelsin

We didn't start the fire by Billy Joel

Surrender by Shouting at Planes

扛過槍 放過羊 by 半噸兄弟

Wisdom eyes by Nine Treasures

Yep, the traditional script is definitely more difficult even with detailed explanations! I guess there may be some differences between the script used in Inner Mongolia vs Mongolia, as Mongolia switched to cyrillic but Inner Mongolia kept using the traditional script so it may have evolved a bit.

It would be interesting to see if and to what extent both scripts differ but the resources may be a tad difficult to find. Apparently the Mongolian in Mongolia is based on the Khalka dialect which has a different pronunciation from Inner Mongolia's Mongolian, so phonetics may also be at play here.

Cyrillic is quite different from the latin alphabet, but it can be learned with practice. The only slight issue is that phonetically mongolian cyrillic is really different from russian, bulgarian, ukrainian cyrillic etc. so the pronunciation can get very confusing if you already know or if you're learning another cyrillic-based language.

Discovered that there are regular flights between Germany and Mongolia so decided to give Mongolian another try. I was pleasantly shocked to discover that there are now more and better learning resources available.

My main mistake was relying solely on english teaching material, I completely forgot that I know other languages e.g. Chinese and the resources found on Baidu look promising.

I might make a post with the resources and material at some point, but for now I need to sort out what's useful and what's not suitable yet.

Who knows, perhaps a summer exploring Mongolia isn't such a distant ethereal dream after all.

Just discovered the 盗墓笔记 Graverobbers Chronicles (Dàomù bǐjì) and now I'm obsessed, both with the tv series (accidentally skipped around 2 prequels and now I'm figuring it out as I watch Ultimate Note) and now the books.

At the time of writing this, I am on episode 15/37 and dear God. The amount of craziness and plot twists is just the perfect amount to keep me entertained.

The books are in Chinese so it'll be a good reading practise as reading news articles and graded readers can get repetitive sometimes. Literary Chinese is quite different from the usual textbook or daily Chinese, so this is definitely an interesting challenge.

Here's the link to the site, it's one of the best sites for Chinese novels that I've seen to date and I highly recommend it.