The definition of a shortcut is to take less time to reach the destination, in reality many phenomena show that there are shortcuts, such as airplanes, now with airplanes, the speed of people travel has become very fast, from China to the United States, it will take about a day, which is unimaginable in ancient times, there were no planes at all in ancient times, to go to the United States you need to take a boat, and it is possible to go to the United States after Columbus found the United States. It should take several months to get there by boat, but if it doesn't go well, it can take years. Therefore, the progress of science and technology has made people's travel have a shortcut in transportation, and it takes less time to achieve the goal in transportation.
From Guangdong to Beijing, the fastest speed in ancient times was to make a carriage or take a boat, which may take several months, but now the plane arrives in half a day, which is the shortcut given to us by the times.
In the same way, communication was also inconvenient in ancient times, and communication mainly relied on writing letters, and it may take months for news about what happened in the capital Beijing to reach the local area. For example, after the change of Li Shimin's Xuanwu Gate, people in the capital will know for the first time that something big has happened in the capital, and people in other places, such as Guangdong, need time to understand, unlike now, as long as you have the Internet, you can see news from all over the world, and the speed of information dissemination is too fast.
Now the chat is also, a WeChat sent over, the other party will definitely deal with it within a day, (unless he doesn't want to pay attention to you), there is no need to go through a long waiting process for a reply, WeChat may be unimaginable for people who wrote letters 30 years ago.
This is also a change of the times, the change in the speed of communication has made people have a shortcut to communicate.
Due to the progress of the times, there are shortcuts in all aspects, and people subconsciously feel that there should be shortcuts to learning Xi, but personal experience feels that there are no shortcuts to learning Xi.
For example, if you want to learn Xi English, the sign of learning English well is to be proficient in listening, speaking, reading and writing, but you can't reach the point of mastering everything without spending a lot of time learning Xi. Take English reading as an example, generally the larger the number of words, the smoother the reading, so to speak, the more original books you read, the more English words you have, the stronger your reading ability. It will definitely take a long time to read 100 original books, so this time of reading cannot be saved, and there is no shortcut. The "shortcut" for modern scholars Xi is mainly that there are more Xi learning materials, unlike the lack of ancient learning Xi materials, and the learning Xi materials have become more, and those who want to learn can learn more, and they will not be stuck by the learning Xi materials.
Imagine that people in the Qing Dynasty needed English and couldn't find 100 original books, and couldn't find so many dictionaries to look up.
But even if there are so many materials to Xi learn, you have to invest time to learn, because there are more shortcuts in other fields, resulting in many people learning Xi also want to find shortcuts, and they don't want to learn Xi materials, but instead look for a better way to get started, this kind of person is called "people who look for shortcuts everywhere", and the consequence of this behavior is that you spend too much time looking for it, and waste too much time to accumulate really useful things.
Therefore, for this kind of person, I can only advise them that learning Xi is a process of different paths to the same end, many methods can be started, all can achieve goals, and at the beginning we must choose a more reliable method to immerse themselves.
There is no shortcut to learning Xi, you have to study hard when you find the information, Xi you have to learn it, and it is your own to learn.