Yingwu

Awesome that you're interested in Chinese. A really good website resource is HackingChinese.com which has a lot of free resources on how to study Chinese.

Other than that, comprehensible input, listening to content that you understand 80-90% off is a great way to improve both pronunciation and listening. I recommend Learn Taiwanese Mandarin, Talk Taiwanese Mandarin With Abby, TeaTime Chinese, Chinese Podcast with Shenglan, MaoMi Chinese. Peppa Pig is also great.

I'd also recommend checking up chorusing/shadowing technique, which is mimicking native sentences and words. It's a surefire way to improve your pronunciation even though it's grindy. HackingChinese has posted a lot about it. Also: work on tone pairs! If you know how a word is pronounced with proper tones, you can transfer that pronunciation to another word with the exact same tones.

Having a teacher that can correct you is also great if you can afford it, but with proper self-discipline self-studies go a long way.

It's a really bad platform in general and has a lot of censorship issues as well. Good for Chinese content though..

It's possible to sign up without a Chinese phone number and get a higher resolution but yes it kinda sucks. I only use it for Chinese content.

Tbh the only country I ever worry about will actively try to deport me for just trying to be a tourist, on some bogus charge after checking social media, would be the US. Can't ever think of any other country that would care or act with the same sense of superiority as the US.

US is also like the only country, as far as I know, in the world that presumes you want to immigrate there and you have to prove them otherwise to be let through

Very nice. I played it for a bit recently but I quit at the water temple, didn't intend to but it kinda made me. To no ones surprise I guess?

Go for it!

Is corporate always the only alternative? I've been working in the public and non-profit sector, even in IT, and it's always been much chiller than "corporate". Maybe small companies are better too. Though I'd like to avoid working at all if possible, which made my returns to the working force always a bit meh anyway.

I decided on Mailbox.org!

I decided on Mailbox.org!

I decided on Mailbox.org!

Interesting! Thanks for this

Regarding having your own custom domain for all emails. I have one with my name which I use for professional communication but I'd like the rest, like mails from Lemmy, to go to an address which can't be identified with me. Is it better trusting a domain name registrar and WHOIS to not give out info than e.g. Mailbox.org? Like yeah, sure, I could register another custom domain but this is what I'm worried about.