Quote: (10-19-2017 11:43 AM)Heart Break Kid Wrote:
What do you call "speaking Chinese"? My Chinese is above "survivalist" Chinese, but not by much. Is what is essentially "party trick" Chinese enough to move the needle, or is the language barrier just too big still? Taiwanese girls seem to like it, but I think Taiwanese girls have better English and are more flirty.
There's a good chance I'm going to explore a non tier 1 city, so I am curious of my chances.
What is the Tinder alternative in China, Tantan? Also, does WeChat have a dating app component to it?
Don't know if this response is coming too late for you, but hopefully it helps someone else. On your Chinese language skill, it'll depend on your background. If you're a regular white dude from the West, mediocre Chinese may certainly net you some options that you otherwise wouldn't have if you knew none at all. That being said, the type of girl that would get with you would also be more likely to be into foreign dudes in the first place. You're right about Taiwanese girls, Taiwan is more Western, so English levels are definitely higher, but as with Mainland China, the better your Chinese is, the more options and hotter options you'll have.
Have you been here yet? What city were/are you in? Some of the tier 2s are still pretty damn good for day and night game, such as Chengdu (I love that place), Chongqing, or Hangzhou.
Tantan has such a high volume of girls on there, but many are super fake-looking (i.e. distorted faces using photoshop-like apps, cutesy cat ears added to their faces, don't know about you but I'm not into that shit), so it can be a while before you find any quality on there. You need a VPN for Tinder, but I'd still recommend it, as even though there aren't many girls on there, the ones that are are generally better quality than on Tantan on average.
Whatever dating component that existed on WeChat (find people, shake etc.) is pretty beat now, at least in tier 1s. I've tried that a few times over the past year here in Shanghai (not close to anywhere where there'd be hookers/scams etc) and I've just had random girls trying to sell stuff/hookers/other bullshit add me.
Hope this helped.