#Cantonese

alan lester

aljhlester

Imperial apologists disavow the violence of the British Empire in two main ways: 1. They dismiss wars of conquest as ‘Queen Victoria’s small wars’. There were relatively few casualties compared

Will

willehelmwonka

I want to talk abt knowing a foreign language. A thread.1/ Whether western reporters’ lack of Chinese language skills hinders their ability to do the jobs always seems to be

Fr Vincent

eyesoffaithdc

Saturday jan 16: woke up, prayed, walked dog, greeted military and police protecting neighborhood; breakfast, confessions... Replaced sanitizer and cleaning rags around church to maintain covid protocols “Blew out” the

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prdsxuxi

why lucas is more than just a pretty face or a visual; an important thread boss is one of the main raps talked about when it comes to lucas because

Resilient girl 🐈😷

resilienthkgirl

#和你readMy copy of "Vigil: Hong Kong on the brink" by @jwassers finally arrived (the delivery was delayed by the pandemic) and I just finished reading it!! Those who are unfamiliar

lokman tsui 😷

lokmantsui

[thread]a week ago i joined clubhouse. it’s now blocked in china. i want to document some of my impressions and memories. a mourning or grieving, of sorts, if you will.

Naomi Wu 机械妖姬

RealSexyCyborg

Can you imagine if all of the largest, most prominent accounts discussing the US on Twitter were all non-Americans, living outside the US? And they got verified, quoted, and signal

陰陳俊傑 Carl Tan Chun Kiet

tanchunkiet

I take issue with this article for a number of reasons. First, in any society, ethnic minorities already face immense pressure to learn the dominant language, which goes hand-in-hand with

George Wⓐlkden

gwalkden

Academic linguists have, on the whole, done a poor job of communicating to the public what terms like “language” and “dialect” actually mean from a narrowly linguistic perspective. Which is

Ailig Ó Maolchalann / Alex Mulholland

molach95

A #Gàidhlig teacher of mine was a native speaker from Skye. He said as a child he turned round to his mother who only spoke Gaelic to him and said

rin aelia 🤍 凛

MissRinAelia

the white people who look down on diaspora for not speaking the langauge of their homeland or living outside of it entirely ignore history and their own privilegemy Japanese family

Jaymee Goh

jhameia

So it took me years and watching RIGOR MORTIS with @yeloson (which is a VERY GOOD Chinese ghost movie, everyone should watch it) before I understood the superstition behind not

ICE must be destroyed 🏴

Itmechr3

The funny part about this is that the single thing this is most true of is China, where in the like 1600's Europeans would be in like rural areas and

Patricia M Thornton

PM_Thornton

Chinese University of #HongKong (#CUHK) issues statement regarding the rumoured reorganization of the University Services Centre and its library "CUHK clarifies unfounded rumour," https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/press_detail.php?1=

Jenn Ravenna Tran

JennRavenna

Warrior is an American TV series based on an original concept/treatment by Bruce Lee. Set during the Tong Wars in 1870s San Francisco, the series follows Ah Sahm, a martial

Ewen Lee

ewen201

This week I wanted to touch on the minority languages of Hong Kong, since the convo around language in HK always tends to be very Cantonese-centric I've picked 5 spoken

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