Comrades who have been/live in China, I’m visiting sometime next year! I’ve commented about this before but it’s coming up on the new year so.
Any advice on where to go, how to behave, what to see, do? Any information would be appreciated, I’m so excited
Genuinely never been so excited to travel before. Marxism-Leninism makes everything so much better lol
I really want to interact with people there, I should start getting some translation apps set up and learn basic phrases in Mandarin. I want to show I’m not an arrogant dumb USian lol, I’ve heard the Chinese are very nice but I am still a little scared to give a bad impression and get marked as a dumb American.
For translation I would recommend Pleco as you can have the person you are communicating with draw the characters and then translate that. It isn’t perfect but I used it heavily when I lived there
Pleco also has a questionable but usually useful optical-character-recognition add-on so you can snap a screenshot (maybe a picture, but mixed results) and translate it
WeChat also has one built-in, which does full sentences rather than just characters.