Long term : you gotta get some friends. It’s hard if yr an adult. Fuck. The nicest people around are trades people. Carpenters plumbers painters like that. Get in with them. That’s the best I got. (And avoid engineers. I speak as an engineer from a family of engineers)
I kinda wanna just go on Language Exchange platforms and like talk to my Cantonese/Mandarin speaking compatriots lol
I speak native-level English so I’m pretty sure I can find a bunch of people willing to talk to me, and I can practice my knowledge of Chinese xD… and maybe disassociate the trigger of “Hearing Cantonese = Oh Shit, is mom nearby” because omg literally I hear Cantonese and my heartbeat goes up through the roof. I could use some desensitation by forming actual positive experience with the language.
Short term : drugs, opiates
Long term : you gotta get some friends. It’s hard if yr an adult. Fuck. The nicest people around are trades people. Carpenters plumbers painters like that. Get in with them. That’s the best I got. (And avoid engineers. I speak as an engineer from a family of engineers)
I kinda wanna just go on Language Exchange platforms and like talk to my Cantonese/Mandarin speaking compatriots lol
I speak native-level English so I’m pretty sure I can find a bunch of people willing to talk to me, and I can practice my knowledge of Chinese xD… and maybe disassociate the trigger of “Hearing Cantonese = Oh Shit, is mom nearby” because omg literally I hear Cantonese and my heartbeat goes up through the roof. I could use some desensitation by forming actual positive experience with the language.