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lcsmark

a thread of lucas speaking multiple languages #LUCAS #루카스 #黄旭熙 1. him trying to create small talk in thai during fansign video calls 2. he tries the best he can

陰陳俊傑 Carl Tan Chun Kiet

tanchunkiet

Can we talk about how the narrative that Mandarin was corrupted by Manchu/Mongolian influences so isn't the "true Chinese" but instead Hokkien or Cantonese is the "true Chinese" isn't just wrong,

🏴 bauhinia black

bauhiniablack

Really, this shit again? You literally don’t know our history. The Cantonese are children of the Indigenous Baiyue (Hundred Tribes) of the Pearl River Delta. We are related to the

免费香港無料台湾

ChineseBot2B

Imagine thinking a fucking fishing village where 90% of the land mass is on the "mainland" from a geographical standard point and *all* the residents are technically descendents of "mainlanders"

Canton NPT

swpCantonNPT

#CantonNPT are pleased to announce a new initiative that has been set up to help us engage with the communities we serve. Here is PS Wong and Inspector Deacy explaining

Phoebe Wang

alittleprint

This past week I have been really angry. It's such an unfamiliar emotion that I didn't even recognize it at first. Listening to Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly, I

Chris Song

chrissonghk

[THREAD] 【#香港 “#Hongkong" and "Hsiang Chiang" in Old Books and a #CIA Document - 通香港都知道呢件事咯】A recent review report urged a scholar to change “Hong Kong” into its romanized pinyin name

Rachel Chan

RachelChan42br

1/7 Seeing as nothing seems to make sense atm, I thought I'd throw my hat in the ring.My mother tongue is Hakka. It's an odd dialect, a cross between Mandarin

zev handel

ZevHandel

I like thinking about familiar things that turn out to have surprising back stories. The modern Chinese second-person singular pronoun 你 (Mandarin nǐ, Cantonese nei5 or lei5) is one of

陰陳俊傑 Carl Tan Chun Kiet

tanchunkiet

One interesting phenomenon re: romanization of Chinese names is sometimes it's very difficult to tell what the original character of the family name is. Especially with SE Asians who trace

Ewen Lee

ewen201

I feel like doing a thread on #HK place names and the absolute treasure trove of cool historical snippets of 1800s #Cantonese that we can see in their romanizations bc

鍾翔宇 Xiangyu

notXiangyu

1. As a result of settler colonialism, the English language has existed in North America for four centuries, roughly the same amount of time 閩南語 (Hokkien or Minnan/Southern Min Language),

Paul Subzak

eagletusk

Once upon a time I thought it was a good idea to study Mandarin....Then I went to China And I realized it's the worst language ever.Meaning is obfuscated to the

Lincoln Ho | Yegventures 🇻🇦🇨🇦🇭🇰

yegventures

Ugh, this @PandaExpress survey definitely triggers me. They're asking whether they're a source of Chinese culture for "Lunar New Year." Calling it LNY to begin with is already insensitive to

Fight For Freedom. Stand With Hong Kong. 重光團隊

Stand_with_HK

https://twitter.com/hkfp/status/1352793996255485952?s=20Further mishandling of #coronavirus by the HK governmentLet me be clear, this is dog-whistling by the government This week officials singled our our ethnic minorities and blamed them f

isabella steger

stegersaurus

interesting Clubhouse room now where Cantonese speakers from HK and Guangzhou are discussing a range of issues. a GZ-based speaker just said "the so-called Greater Bay Area" is just one

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