u/thablackadonis

I got the rejection email today after 3 months of interviewing. They said the team loved me and I was a good culture fit but they really wanted someone bilingual in CHINESE to help with Semiconductor customers. I wish they told me this at the beginning of the interview process and I would've at least spent some time watching chinese shows and doing interview prep in chinese. Now I just wasted months of my time instead.

I've been practicing my Chinese for jobs in the bay area as I'm seeing more and more sales jobs having a bilingual requirement specifically for Chinese. I'm using praktika interview prep is there anything else I can do in addtion to this?

The hardest part about learning a language is getting past translating everything you do from English to spanish,french,chinese or whatever language it is you're learning. If you start to just narrate your life in this language then you'll notice certain words are used more than others and it because more of a reflex rather than a translation exercise.

I'm curious as a new-ish Spanish learner what is the biggest hurdle more seasoned Spanish learners are going through and what could I do to avoid that as I start to learn more. Right now my plan is to use apps like anki to build my vocab and praktika to practice the vocab and maybe down the line use italki to get tutors that actually live there.

Sometimes I feel like we put a lot of pressure on ourselves when learning languages but if we think about big picture our day to day life doesn't change much (unless you actively live in Italy). Might be easier to think about language goals in months and years instead of days and weeks.

The majority of people will spend YEARS consuming content in hopes it helps them with the language they want to learn. Feels productive at least until they try to start speaking. You might recognize a word in writing but struggle to use it while speaking. Yes, I think apps (praktika, anki, language transfer) help. But you need that 5-10 minutes of unstructured practice to really exercise the speaking muscle IMHO.

I find it kind of hilarious how I can understand Spanish easily when reading it and doing lessons and then someone starts speaking it and well its all foreign from there lol