I just wanted to write this post to take advice from anyone who may have found themselves in a similar situation. I just came back from Taiwan, was there for 5 weeks to take intensive mandarin courses (16h/week) and to be immersed in the language. I feel like my 中文 has improved a lot, naturally. I learned a lot of new vocabulary, grammar, and syntax. What's more, I got to apply my learning in every day conversations, being confronted to the language on a daily basis. This has rather obviously been my single most efficient period of learning since I started learning Mandarin just over a year ago. Now I have been back to my country for 3 days. I already find my brain switching back to my region's languages (French mostly, and english). I had video calls with some of my friends in Taiwan and found it extremely difficult to converse in Chinese with them. Maybe it's a mix of the fatigue and jet-lag, maybe it's my brain hitting "back to reality" mode, I'm not sure. I'm just really anxious to lose what I have spend so much time and effort acquiring abroad. I've already signe up to a Chinese class at a local community college, which conveniently starts next week. I'm just not sure whether a once a week group class will be enough, or that it will be moving at the pace that I had gotten used to. I feel a bit frustrated right now and would like to hear from others who have been in similar situations. How do you pick up the pace when you get home? How do you keep practicing when you are in an environment where you are not confronted to the language daily? How do you move on after an immersion experience?
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