I have heard the same about handwriting, albeit not as often. It’s something along the lines “Chinese people don’t care about tones anyway, I can sound native-like if I just speak quickly enough”. I’ve heard this so many times my ears bleed and my soul cries every time I hear it. The trap: Using shortcuts to mimic natives
This is true for language learning as well. you do everything quickly and with small movements from the start), it’ very hard to learn things properly.
If you do it the other way around, however (i.e. His rationale for saying this is clear: if you learn to do things with slow, big movements, it’s quite easy to make them quicker and more efficient once you’ve learnt the motions properly. My taichi instructor told me to make sure that movements are big and slow in the beginning, and then, as skill improves, they should become quicker and more efficient. I’ve found that many of the concepts I encountered while practising also applies to learning Chinese. Source: years ago, I practised taichichuan/taijiquan (太極拳) daily, but even if I’ve since found other physical activities I enjoy more, it was still my martial arts practise that brought me into contact with Chinese language and philosophy in the first place.
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