I'm a NEET and I will be going to China to study at Mandarin for a year at a university. What should I do to prepare? Also will it be like an anime?
>>2877985Make sure to get a VPN or two set up. Get Alipay and Wechat set up for payments and various stuff as well. Other than that, it's like any other first world country. Just cheaper and safer.
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>>2877985To prepare? Study Chinese now. Go all in. Also go to the gym and get in shape, get a job if you dont have money etc
>>2878011>>2878035>>2878036But the most important question has been ignored. Will it be like an anime?
>>2878040They don't make noises like the japs but it's close
>>2878040It will be like an isekai China is a retarded bug hive and you will struggle to take it seriouslyYour cheat power is being white and being able to leave
>>2878011>china>first world wew lad
>>2878054this
>>2877985which city, this is important
>>2878065Chengdu
>>2878176>arrive in Chengdu>book accommodation through baidu maps>sorry no foreigners>refund and wechat the next place>capsule hotel>they tell me foreigner ok price 140 rmb>i send him a screenshot in chinese showing the price is 18rmb>he mumbles some shit about nationalismOther than that it was alright. Nightlife is a little bit cucked but still viable. Met a nice girl at the arcade and we still keep in touch
>>2878176get used to spicy food and heat in summerI assume you are going to Sichuan uni, it has a pretty good Chinese teaching department, but the on-campus accomodation sucks. You should get an apartment off-campus they are very cheap. Canteen food is good.have an actual plan to study and practice Chinese outside your classes, make Chinese friends, don't just fall in with other loser expats and foreigners, do something with the year instead of frittering it away >>2878186filtered, you should have booked through meituan where you can filter for "takes foreigners"nightlife is cucked because it's catered to gays
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>>2878208Will it be lonely? Can you make friends easily in China? My purpose main purpose for going is to leave my comfort zone for a while and experience something new. I've been pretty isolated for a while now.
>>2878240I've only been to china for 2 weeks, with some chinese friends, and I felt alienated and kinda frustrated. Mostly from how it's tricky to uncover the truth there. People cover it to make things convenient for themselves, and they think they're doing you a favor by not sharing the truth with you too. Like being told to go somewhere or do something without an explanation. That can get to you, so prepare for it.If you've already been isolated, you should be ok. You might enjoy the small talk like "where are you from? why did you come here? etc" at first, but depending on your character, that could also drive you nuts after this exact sequence of conversation happens with randoms regularly.
>>2878240>Will it be lonely? Can you make friends easily in China? Depends where you live. I spent two years in a tier-2 city and it was by far the easiest place to make friends that I've ever lived precisely because everyone is lonely. Since there aren't many foreigners in China you get something like the experience of small town life where everyone knows each other while living in a metropolis. If you live in a tier-999 even better, having no waiguoren to interact with is the way to speedrun Mandarin fluency.
>>2878248Were your friends cool, or were they basic? Just eat at restaurants, play phone games and cards, and do chinese-normie stuff?
>>2878251I made friends with other expats. Some of them were cool, others were weird. Misfits are overrepresented among expats but they come in all varieties. If you want to make friends with locals you'll need strong Mandarin to really build a relationship. Most Chinese are curious about foreigners and they tend to be more outgoing than other East Asian cultures so it shouldn't be difficult if you can bridge the communication gap. PC gaming is big there. Dota2 and League of Legends were extremely popular when I was there but that was a decade ago. Alcohol is a good social lubricant like anywhere else but be careful not to get shitfaced, there's a strong stigma around alcoholism and you'll lose face if you can't hold your liquor.
>>2878208in the end i paid 400 rmb for 12 nights and had own room so it was worth it"takes foreigners" is a meme, only mid or high end will write that
>>2878240in chengdu it's ez. you have to go for it yourself though. have hobbies and do shit and you'll be fine
Expect your university and classes to be filled with africans, jeets, arabs, and other undesirableskek
>>2878240it's not very easy because people view friendships as transactional, especially those with foreignersI had a lot of acquaintances and people who wanted me to come out drinking but not many people I could actually get along with>>2878319Sichuan uni actually has a good amount of white people, Peking and Tsinghua have very few thirdies, but I agree the rest have a lot
>>2878324>it's not very easy because people view friendships as transactional, especially those with foreigners>I had a lot of acquaintances and people who wanted me to come out drinking but not many people I could actually get along withfor me guiyang was like this but chengdu was better
>>2877985prepare by going out to the city and shitting in front of everyone then never wiping or flushing.
>>2878319>>2878324Is that true? Will it be literally all foreigners?
>>2878011>Just cheaper and safer.>>2878061>wew ladBut he wasn't wrong.>>2877985Have fun out there anon, bring our two worlds closer together one day.
>>2878701Sichuan uni is like 3-5% foreigners, really not very many. Your language classes will be all foreigners though, but mostly white people because the jeets and Arabs are all taking classes in English.
>>2878713>the same chongqing/shanghai tiktok slopagandaImplessive Now let's see a tier-2/3 city>"Here's your first world country, bro!"
>>2878783But OP is going to Chengdu which is very developed and full of le skyscrapers and LEDs, not a T3 polluted shithole
>>2878790OP can stay in T1 or new T1 cities like Chengdu. My point is that it gets very turdie, very quickly when you leave those cities. The majority of chinese people (90%) live in 3rd world conditions. Taiyuan is a T2 city btw
>>2878176Lucky for you OP Chengdu is the fag capital of China
>>2878240In my experience Chinese can be very outgoing and will readily include you and invite you to stuff. I was lucky I knew a few people with family there and I got invited to spend time and do stuff with them and they are very hospitable. But even if you don't know anyone I don't believe it would be hard to make friends, though cultural differences may affect the quality of those friendships.Bonus points if you meet a nice girl and she brings you to stuff with her family
>>2878802As a white can confirm, mainland chinese people are great about that if you speak chinese
>>2878790>Chengdu>Not pollutedAnon I love Chengdu but it is famously and unavoidably polluted due to geography
>>2878836nigga what is your reading comprehension where did I say Chengdu was not polluted
>>2878040It's awesome, it's just the right mix of chaos and order, I'm so jealous, I wanna go back, fuck liberal democracy it's so boring here (but make sure to install a couple of VPNs first and Alipay too)Download Pleco on your phone if you haven't already.>>2878176I hope you like gay sex, enjoy the spicy asses.>>2878240Chinese people are very friendly in my experience, they aren't polite which is something that might shock a Westerner at first, if they want to tell you to fuck off they will tell you to fuck off, but most of the time, they are curious about foreigners and want them to have a good time, appreciate that you made an effort to come to their country and have an interest in their culture. If a girl likes you, she will make it very clear.The real problem is the language barrier, very few people speak English, and they keep talking to you in Mandarin as if you could understand it. I recommend installing Pleco and learning a few hundred characters so you can draw things they can understand just in case, they will think you are very smart if you can draw Chinese characters.
PS: I forgot to mention Hanly, I've heard it's a really good app to learn Hanzi and it's completely free.
>>2878838You may want to check YOUR comprehension and precision of expression - "not a polluted T3 shithole" clearly implies that it's not polluted, or at least is not as polluted as what one would expect from a "T3 shithole". But it is one of the most polluted major cities in the country, so both are wrong, and no reasonable reader is going to infer that your point is really "its a polluted *T2* shithole, not *T3*"
The pollution talk...compared to Hanoi, pollution in China is nothing, and the CPC actually cares about this shit unlike the Vietnamese Communist Party, or Modi in India, so don't fret about it. Somehow on this board, it's completely okay if some cities in Thailand are in the top 30 of the most polluted cities in the world, but in Choyna, oh my god it's a huge issue, don't go!!!!!! Go figure.
>>2878902Agreed the pollution is largely a non issue. Don't worry about it at all unless picking a city for full time, long term living. I am just spazzing about the other anon's imprecise wording
>>2878902>CPCKnee howwwww
>>2878893t3 coal-mining cities are far more polluted than ChengduBeijing and Xi'an usually have worse AQI tooin my experience it wasn't that bad
Get ready for the Spitting
>>2877985>what do I do to prepare >>2878036this>>2878011>first world countrysecond world. Get out of the t1 cities.>will it be like an animelol no. much dirtier with uncivilized people. You're cheating yourself if you think of China as dollar store Japan. On the other hand, China is so much cooler on its own and deserves to be taken on its own terms. Get into traditional Chinese stuff like the clothing, food, and history.If you want Japan, go to Japan.
