Worstgen

BangOO🍅

Ni hao
Wo ai ni
Xie xie
Gong Xi Fat Cai

Kagumon

@Cuistot knows 🥲

BangOO🍅

Dont forget to give me social credits because i help you..

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Ballel

@Meeyori

Meeyori

I’m pretty fluent 🙂

MangoSenpai

@Meeyori would it be alright if you could help me with learning if just a little bit?
😇

Meeyori

yeah, of course!

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Ballel

I'm jealous 😭

I tried learning Mandarin when I was barely 12 y/o but failed miserably :catcry:

It's too advanced for my humble Indo-European braim😭😭

Meeyori

the tones will get ya 😆 I’m lucky enough to have parents who speak it at home

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Ballel

I remember this joke sentence that has only "ma" syllables and means something like "does the mother scold the horse?" 😂😂

Meeyori

Hahaha yes,

mā mā mà mǎ ma
媽媽駡馬嗎

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Ballel

Wasn't there another long ass one with only 'shi' syllables?

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Ballel

As far as I remember:

mā mā - mother
mà - scold
mǎ - horse
ma - question particle

Meeyori

There’s a lot of tongue twisters using 4 and 10 since they sound similar (si and shi), but there is this poem that is insanity 🤣

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChineseLanguage/comments/877m3r/can_you_read_the_poem_shi_and_the_ten_stone_lions/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Meeyori

“As far as I remember:

mā mā - mother
mà - scold
mǎ - horse
ma - question particle”

Yeah, that’s exactly it 😁

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Ballel

Right, this one!! 😂😂😂😂

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Ballel

What I find so fascinating about Chinese is that there are so many Chinese dialects that are more like seperate languages. And some of them having even more tones than Mandarin :catcry:

Meeyori

Yeah, I grew up listening to Taiwanese a lot too, and it’s even harder since it has 8 tones and a few japanese loan words