@learnchinesewithalessia: How I Mastered Chinese in 8 Months When I was 17, I won a $13,000 scholarship to study in China for a year. It changed everything. I arrived with zero knowledge of Chinese. Not a word. We were in class from 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. every single day. Yes, including evenings. No Rest. The goal was clear: get fluent, fast. At first, we learned basic vocabulary. But here’s the twist: after just one month, our teachers stopped speaking English. Entirely. They told us: "I know you guys are not ready to speak Chinese. I know you’re not ready to understand it. But you have to. Starting today, we speak only Chinese." Imagine trying to understand complex grammar rules… in a language you don’t even know yet. It was crazy. But it worked. 📚 Every day, we had to memorize 30 to 100 new words—and if we made even 3 small mistakes, we had to do the entire dictation again the next day. 🎤 We wrote stories daily and had to perform them in front of the class. Public speaking in a foreign language—terrifying. But it sharpened our fluency fast. 📘 We followed textbooks, read dialogues, and did loads of exercises. After just four months, I passed HSK 4 (intermediate level). By month eight, I passed HSK 5 (advanced level)—which allowed me to enter a Chinese university in Shanghai. Yes, Chinese is one of the hardest languages for Westerners— I'm Italian. Yes, it was exhausting. But the growth that came from that challenge was absolutely worth it.

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