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Breaking through the Chinese intermediate plateau | Why I'm Doing This Sometimes people ask me, Gene, why are you so committed to learning Chinese to such a high level? Why are you setting such intense and aggressive fluency goals for yourself? To understand this, you have to know a little bit of my background. I am a Chinese adoptee, born in Wuhan China, and adopted to my family in America in 1993. I was 18 months old. Growing up, I didn't learn Chinese. In 2024, I returned to China for the first time since being adopted. During that 3 week trip, I followed my friend around and when I was meeting her family, all I could say was hello (你好), thank you (谢谢), I'm hungry (我饿了), I'm full (我吃饱了). When I landed back in America, something strange hap

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