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Most of the folks I know there who speak well never bother learning to read and write characters. I can't blame them. It's a huge commitment to learn a non-phonetic language. But it was funny to watch them be as clueless as me when we walk through a supermarket
I do know one guy who became so fluent that he earned their equivalent of a green card (almost unheard of).
Are you a Wechat user?
It seems doable, I can probably recognize around a thousand characters or so at this point, and using pinyin as input means I can skip learning how to write the characters which seems to be the hardest part. And I'm not on Wechat.
Damn that's impressive character vocabulary!
I mean it's just a matter of practice, I just spend half an hour a day practising using an app and stuff ends up sinking in eventually.