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(11-01-2017 11:03 PM)Fortis Wrote:  

Nope, after thirty your IQ plummets down to 50 and you're effectively a vegetable.

That's true. This is what I looked like for most of my twenties:



And this is a photo that was taken on my 30th birthday:

(11-01-2017 11:03 PM)Fortis Wrote:  

If you moved to China and studied hard for 6 months to a year you would get strong really fast.

True, but don't expect to be fluent or anywhere close to it after six months. True fluency will probably take at least two years of solid, serious study, due to the heavy learning curve of the language. Just teaching your brain to comprehend and hear sounds it doesn't know exist will take considerably time.

Getting your mouth to form those sounds will take even more time and that's just the barrier to entry to being about to start attempting to engage in conversations that last more than 10 seconds.

Once you've climbed that mountain, you'll still have most of the actual language learning still remaining.

(11-01-2017 11:03 PM)Fortis Wrote:  

ChoiChoi has been here one year and his Chinese is already wayyyy better than mine.

So, you're saying that he has already mastered all the advance phrases such as "Maidan!", "wo de mingzi shi fo-ti-su" and "ting bu dong!"?