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Come now, surely you jest.

You can learn basic conversational Mandarin in a few weeks. Get Pimsleur, it's BY FAR the most effective way to learn the basics of a spoken language that I'm aware of.

Also, Google Translate is most certainly blocked here. At least the app on my XiaoMi phone doesn't work.

Yeah, yeah I know. This has already been covered in this thread before. Sometimes we have to take care of passport issues on short notice, or the quarterly visit doesn't have any available app'ts and we need to seek out other options. I am merely presenting an alternative option.

I did find an agency in CD willing to deal with this kind of thing. If anyone needs the contact info send me a PM or you can try hitting me up on Wechat @viborgu

Thanks for the info, especially finlay. I just had a personal email exchange with the consulate, don't know why they couldn't let me know about that. Maybe they're already booked. Anyway I'll ask again.