My guess is that it’s more efficient to study full time while living in the country. I think living there increases motivation, means you learn what you actually need, means you learn a bunch ‘passively’, and lets you practice conversation a lot, which is better than most book learning, and you learn more of the culture.
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Being there definitely increased my motivation to learn the language, even though I didn’t know any Chinese beforehand and wasn’t intending to learn any.
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Being there definitely increased my motivation to learn the language, even though I didn’t know any Chinese beforehand and wasn’t intending to learn any.