bagel （竹升仔）

I want foreigners to understand how cool the Thai repetition mark "ๆ" is functions similarly to saying "again" and "very" or creating plural I love youๆ So trueๆ Amazingๆ

@riyangiconik me but the opposite, where i try to eavesdrop but they’re speaking too fast and i realize my mandarin is worse than i thought (good for u tho genuinely)

accidentally eavesdropped the convo of 2 korean girls at the store cause i didn't think i understood korean that well

@generalusername @cobbaltt ah lmao they did Not teach me that one in my hindi class

@user028411 @cobbaltt Susu kedelai in Indonesian is “soy milk”, kedelai “soyabean” from Tamil kaḍalai “chickpeas”. Susu is milk in Indonesian but piss in Hindi.

This is insanely funny to Tamil-Hindi bilinguals

i hate to be basic here, always was a huge ghibli fan since childhood (mononoke the best) but la la land might’ve been the one to truly get me invested in non-animated film

@003_pug90955 i fear ur taking it too literally lmao, they really do share a lottttt of cultural (and physical) features

They really aren’t though. Different genetics. One in Asia other in Mexico. Different language. Different geography.

@kalomaze i love chinese, the grammar is so simple like you really do just put words together without all the unnecessary conjugations and phrases. 好久不見，long time no see! so straightforward, perfectly understandable

"long time no see" came from chinese pidgin english. at no point in my life did i ever once question why a mangled construction feels perfectly legible and correct despite obviously breaking at the local syntactic level

@ax10zx honestly the labeling of mandarin and chinese languages is mad confusing and complicated, there’s no way to really get it right lol everyone does it differently, to each their own

@ax10zx 中文 is assumed to refer to mandarin bc its the primary spoken form of chinese by an insane margin, but technically it really does just mean “chinese language” in a written sense

我的中文学习进度。Sorry if I made mistakes. ---------- 中文/漢語 : 我 Wǒ 廣東話 : 我 ngo5 闽南話 : 我 góa 潮州話 : 我 uá 客家話 : 𠊎(我) ngái 中文/廣東話/闽南話/潮州話 : 𠊎 ngái !? 客家話 : 𠊎/ 我 ✅

@valerie_on_e fr, overcook it a bit in the right sauce and it’s sooo good bc it soaks up everything so well

if you can't eat broccoli as an adult it's genuinely such a skill issue just cook it better

@avasPALLADIUM and the fact that colorism still hits them when they’re not even *that* dark,,, like damn the standards are fucked

colorism is a disease bc these are are very pretty women

@femboytboy @r4tm0bile lmao fr im proving them wrong immediately

@r4tm0bile if someone tells me i have kinder eyes than a cïs man they're getting hit

ftm chasers: you may be a “man” but i can still sense the feminine energy coursing through you 😍 what a blessing your xx chromosomes are, you’re not on t right? mtf chasers: how big is it

@zzzjerm hence why i have >300 playlists instead lmfao i canNOT do liked songs shuffle

NEVER shuffle all your liked songs or you’re gonna get a combination like this

@DeltyThe73rd i’m genuinely impressed by the number of people playing into the bit lol it’s great

Malaysia (nice try I've seen Crazy Rich Asians)

One of the best movies I’ve ever seen

@spaceyvicky @ells_rsx great comet mentioned let’s goooo literally my all time fav

@ells_rsx dust and ashes from great comet!! what about you?

Question of the day?? What is the best/most iconic male theatre song in your opinion? (e.g Roxanne, For Her, Meant to be yours, I'm Alive)

I feel like this is what the moon would look like in the Into The Spider-Verse movies

@orikron @JaysonVirissimo tbh i agree w u, i just like them bc the vast majority of written chinese history uses them so it feels more tied to the culture, not that it’s inherently more valuable

@user028411 @JaysonVirissimo I'll be a hater and say that trad characters don't necessarily convey the 甲骨文 or 金文 shape of meaning better than simplified due to how arbitrary many of the clerical script changes were so not much really o.g. cultural value is lost. I agree that 發 and 髮 -> 发 is bad tho.

📕 If you're thinking of learning both Chinese and Japanese -- as someone who learnt Japanese first -- I can now tell you with confidence: you should learn Chinese first. From a pure linguistic standpoint, if you're a native speaker of any European language, Chinese grammar will be more intuitive. Intuitive grammar leads to faster acquisition of vocabulary because input is more comprehensible by default. Once you're done with Chinese, you'll then have the exorbitant privilege of taking all that Chinese vocabulary and re-learning it with far less mental effort in Japanese. This is not only helpful for the words directly borrowed from Chinese; mastering Hanzi also helps you learn native Japanese words because many of them will have an associated Kanji with a meaning you're already familiar with. By having the mental image of the character and its meaning in Chinese in mind when you learn a word, you now just have to learn the pronunciation and your brain is free to wrap its head around Japanese grammar. A few characters have somewhat different meanings but they're always close to enough to serve as a useful hint in context. By learning Chinese first, your brain will get very good at seeing, remembering and identifying characters. This skill is entirely transferable. And if you master Chinese, you'll already know more Hanzi by sight (3500-5000+) than the average Japanese person (2000-3000).

@yierfanclub_ @ax10zx ooh nice way of putting it! yeah its a lot like CONtest vs conTEST having different meanings

@user028411 @ax10zx yeah i agree 😭 imo the flow of it can be compared to english intonation so thinking of it as that makes it easier for me

I am that weird chinese learner, who remember the symbols better than the pin yin. But I don't know the tones.