#Mandarin

Tony Stark

Iron_Man_Actual

This is an excellent point and one that I agree with @Kate_OKeeffe As China has grown in strategic relevance to the US, we've seen some ridiculous gatekeeping and con artistry.

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,

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),

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

zev handel

ZevHandel

Have you ever noticed that there is something strange about the Mandarin word for gas, wǎsī? Looking at the written form 瓦斯, it just doesn’t seem like a normal Chinese

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

Gina Anne Tam 譚吉娜

DGTam86

So normally I don't respond to random posts, but for educational purposes, I'll bite. By "literally," I presume you mean how most linguists define dialect, in which case, no it

Bad Linguistics and Orwell Takes (莫去我厝拜年)

Bad_Linguistics

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Canton NPT

swpCantonNPT

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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

David Lo Pun-ch Nazis

helpmeskeletor

I know I’m going on a bit about Joss Wh*don but I want people to remember he created a whole universe that spoke Mandarin for the aesthetic with no actual

Adrian Lee Oliver

AdrianLeeOliver

Thread: 15 years ago, the realization that influenced all of my intellectual life was witnessing how incompetent people usually are at solving problems, despite having top-flight education from top-tier universities.

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

SL Huang 黄士芬

sl_huang

Wrists still in pain but dammit this thread has been eating my brain lately so I'm gonna trymight be slow on replies though I've seen increasing concern on getting romanization

William Yang

WilliamYang120

According to @RFA_Chinese, Tony Chung, had sought help from #Taiwan government multiple times since last year. He reportedly worried about his own safety on July 21, and called #Taiwan's "#HK

dorian

notyourmijo

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