#Mandarin

Aurelia V

senjatanuklir

Musik Cina awal abad ke-20 smp 1970-an pasarnya kalo gak Mainland-Taiwan-HK, ya, ke Asia Tenggara, karena banyak keturunan Cina.Di era itu banyak bgt yang cover/remake lagu Asia Tenggara. Tsui Ping

jonathan nunn

demarionunn

i didn't do a huge amount of food writing this year, but i'm proud of everything i published at @vittleslondon. i can't pick my favourites but here is a thread

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

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

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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

Matthew Stinson

stinson

Per discussion with another China Matt, I was wondering, how many non-white/non-Asian Asia area journalists and scholars are there? I had black and brown classmates when I studied Mandarin twenty

이건 jwy stan 계정인가요? 나도 모른다.

wooyoungsgrowl

Ok Taecyeon. 玉泽演 Yu Ze Yan. 泽Ze could be from 恩泽EnZe which means to benefit from, or 光泽GuangZe which means to shine. While 演Yan literally means to perform, like 演员YanYuan

zev handel

ZevHandel

A seemingly bizarre editorial error in a Taiwanese children’s book has a lot to tell us about the history of Chinese characters as they’ve traveled from China to Japan—and back

irene, the clown prince of xian le

crownsnbirds

heaps of ppl on my tl are watching the Sleuth of Ming Dynasty and i just wanted to flag something, as a han chinese person (1/?) (2) DISCLAIMER : i’m

TheDisabilityEnthusiast

twitchyspoonie

This might be a hot take, but if you're a leftist in a colonial country and have the access, I think you should be learning another language. I think we

🥂 marquis de posade 🏖

acczibit

DependsEmergency as in "a coup could have literally happened and a mob of MAGA boomers could have taken control of the country" then noEmergency as in massive embarrassment and loss

foone

Foone

oh wow, someone near me is selling some big box PC games that I've never seen before, because they're not in engilsh! One's Princess Maker 4, one's Tun Town 2,

zev handel

ZevHandel

In this thread I’m going to talk about one of my favorite etymologies. The history of this word has got it all: it’s a fascinating tale of multi-lingual and multi-cultural

优述/You Shu

You_Shu_China

This is a great little insider-China political story which I’ve never seen reported before. Thanks ‘Zhongnanhai Nightalk’ (中南海夜谈). It’s a bit bagua (gossipy), so details are impossible to check etc.

Michael Cannings

formosaphile

One of my favourite artefacts from martial law-era Taiwan is this textbook of spoken Taiwanese (Hokkien). It says so much about the complex intersection of religion, identity, and language of

Dr. Trey 謹防法西斯小學梟

Comparativist

A peak behind the window explaining why HK teaches Chinese/Canto as a second language so poorly. Thread So my daughter is almost six and had about a year and a

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