☕ Kopitiam (Chinese conversations)

[shut radish]

[sonic salmon]

Lol

[sterile tide]

ahmad teh

Okay no one will get the inside joke here

[sonic salmon]

Sorry no inside joke because friend'nt

[shut radish]

je suis choqué

wtf

[sterile tide]

😔

Karas is typing

[dusty badger]

c refers to the evaporated milk added to the teh

Tarik is "to pull"

Teh Tarik is pulled tea

[shut radish]

i say condensed milk

[sonic salmon]

mhm I'm lookin at it rn

Foam on top :0

[shut radish]

who say condensed milk

[sterile tide]

I don't understand Singaporean colloquial at all

[dusty badger]

"o" is original

so teh o is just black tea

[radiant shell]

they are two different things...

[sterile tide]

It's like every language at the same time

[shut radish]

i see evaporated milk in the uk but i say condensed

oh

ok

[dusty badger]

Ei?

[shut radish]

i didnt know

[dusty badger]

Condensed milk is the slimy one right??

[shut radish]

im slimy

[radiant shell]

evaporated milk is literally evaporated milk
condensed milk is evaporated milk with sugar, that's why it can be kept in room temperature

[dusty badger]

evaporated milk is the watery one right?

[radiant shell]

yes

[dusty badger]

👍

[radiant shell]

they have different flavour profile

condensed milk is .... sweeter and faker

[shut radish]

I like it

Its yummy

[shut radish]

花奶？

[radiant shell]

yes

[dusty badger]

Ing

[shut radish]

Flower miwk uwu

[dusty badger]

Condensed milk is godly when used with thai black tea

[shut radish]

煉奶looks like something

[dusty badger]

It's a very nice name

[shut radish]

yes

[radiant shell]

wdym lol

[shut radish]

[radiant shell]

花奶 is just a contraction of 三花淡奶..

[shut radish]

it looks like smth

and feels like smth

⚪

this!

:D

[radiant shell]

i feel that someone forgot i'm actually the admin

[shut radish]

[shut radish]

🇧🇬

[dusty badger]

I feel that the someone is me

[dusty badger]

😔😔

[shut radish]

🇮🇹🇧🇬🇲🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇲🇽🇱🇧🇮🇷🇭🇺

[shut radish]

A

[eager plover]

B

[minor bluff]

Chinese

[eager plover]

Dic-tionary

[main frigate]

Electroencephalographically

[eager plover]

FML

[minor bluff]

If someone says that Chinese is a bunch of dialects, tell them English is a dialect of German

Better yet, if someone says that Chinese is a bunch of dialects because same writing system, tell them that Bahasa indonesia is a dialect of english

[shut radish]

yes

v good comebacks

[main frigate]

don't even need comebacks for people who actually think that they are dialects 💀

[eager plover]

Lol this scenario happened to me

but without noticing i was involved in some political sht i didn't care about

i said "then Catalan is a dialect of Spanish" and they got mad 💀

[sterile tide]

Gravitoelectromagnetism

[sterile tide]

i thought you were sharing my psych knowledge then i realised you just searched up the longest word with e 😔

[main frigate]

I would never do such a thing 😇

[lime quail]

japanese is a dialect of chinese

[eager plover]

Ure gonna get banned

[dusty badger]

some guy thought Ukrainian was a Russian dialect in another server

[dusty badger]

isn't English drunk german though?

^ jokes

[shut radish]

yes

[shut radish]

ppl actually gonna think this

[shut radish]

its a dialect continuum 🤓🤓

jokes aside you can argue many things being dialect continuums

[dusty badger]

whats a dialect continuum

[shut radish]

me rn 🤓

[eager plover]

is it really fuck up if in a japanese context i write the chinese version kanjis?

like 毎、魚、画

[lime quail]

is my computer not able to show chinese text 🤔

[radiant shell]

It’s the Japanese kanji yeah

In Traditional Chinese it will be 每魚畫

Simplified Chinese is different but i cannot type them out

[lime quail]

ig i'd have to add a chinese language pack to windows to make it display

[radiant shell]

No, your pc is displaying it just fine

[lime quail]

fair enough

[dusty badger]

perhaps

[dusty badger]

https://twitter.com/hezehua5/status/1613832696538755072?s=20&t=CJ2C0nSSLjws7tngENhWrg 😭❤️

李婧（爱是最美的风景） (@hezehua5)

小女孩爷爷去世了一年，在公交车上又遇见了“爷爷”😭😭😭 #人间温暖 #感动瞬间The warmth of the world

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[shut radish]

[shut radish]

🤔

[eager plover]

context is, we usually talk in Spanish but i want to improve my chinese as well cause its rusty as hell so i asked her to speak chinese

[dusty badger]

朋友不愿意讲华语的话可以跟我们讲话

花边新闻都可以讲哦

[eager plover]

对对 哈哈哈

但是这是个学日语的server

有点尴尬

[whole mantle]

It's ok, our admin is chinese, talk away 💅

[shut radish]

射

[dusty badger]

但这是Kopitiam叻

Kopitiam华语是OK的

[eager plover]

💀

Youre not wrong

[radiant shell]

花樣年華有上海話的對白但是沒字幕，要上網查才知道潘迪華在講什麼

搿搶儂好像蠻多應酬噢（你最近好像蠻多應酬啊）
年紀輕呢出去散散心白相相是應該個（年紀輕呢出去散散心玩玩也是應該的）
不過要有分寸個（不過要有分寸啊）
儂先生幾時回來啊（你先生幾時回來啊）
搿趟伊轉來末儂勿要撥伊出介許多門勒（這趟他回來之後，你不要讓他出太多門了）
兩夫妻常莊分開呢總歸勿大好個（兩夫妻常常分開呢總不是太好）
儂講阿對啊（你說對不對）

以前30年代日本侵華，然後國共內戰所以很多上海人移民香港， 不過現在那些居港上海人的後代都不會說上海話了

This is the first time I've heard Shanghainese actually

Two of my uncles were Shanghainese but they had never spoken it

[eager plover]

Lol some words sound like 青田话

Feels bad cause very few people of my generation speaks it

They'd just learn mandarin

[radiant shell]

they are in the same family

[dusty badger]

很有趣欸

[dusty badger]

我认为教育部该在学校教方言欸但是学生们可能会对学方言无兴趣

语言千千万万

大多数人可能是比较喜欢跑去学别的语言如日语俄语等

[eager plover]

Mandarin speakers can't understand almost anything when i speak 青田话 to them 😦

[eager plover]

i looked it up TIL

[kind solar]

Hmm why does 答 look like this in these writings?

Wait is this the right place or is archaic forum better

[radiant shell]

here is fine

most probably just a simplified variant

[kind solar]

OH that makes so much more sense now.

I was scouting for examples of 竹 being used in sousho or other cursive writings and I guess I stumbled upon some interesting finds.

Imagine my surprise when I searched 笑 and something like 咲 come up. I had to check pleco

Fascinating

Is it like an obsolete alternative to 笑? Or something more

[radiant shell]

variant

if you go to wiktionary you will see it

[kind solar]

Ahh I need to learn how to use Wiktionary.

Bc there seems to be lots of juicy information on there.

[radiant shell]

it's not that difficult lol, the traditional, simplified, japanese, korean, variant forms are all listed on the right

[kind solar]

👀
I mean I mever used it but that sounds awesome

[kind solar]

Oooo

[main frigate]

yeah a whole new world opened up before me when I started using wiktionary

it's not always right, but it's still pretty good

[kind solar]

Is Wiktionary apart of wikipedia

[main frigate]

it's a sister project to wikipedia

you can see it linking to wikipedia

it can sometimes go hand in hand

altho I don't understand why they transcribe the RP pronunciation from UK

[kind solar]

Dog 😭

[radiant shell]

what do you mean?

[sinful quarry]

Same question lol

[main frigate]

isn't there a more newer dialect that younger people talk nowadays?

I thought RP was only used by old people, but I might be wrong

[dusty badger]

monitor lizard come in kopitiam

[main frigate]

I guess there's nothing wrong with the inclusion of the RP pronunciation, but I think it's weird leaving the newer one out I guess

[eager plover]

People when i go a kopitiam after 1 week locked inside my house

[eager plover]

Yea mandarin x)

[radiant shell]

RP is the standard form of British English. You won't find the pronunciations or words in other dialects in dictionaries

It's been watered down in recent years but all middle-class people have a RP-ish accent these days

[main frigate]

is it coming back? 👀

[radiant shell]

? It's never been gone

Most local accents are disappearing anyway

[main frigate]

ah I guess I assumed it was disappearing after watching Geoff Lindsey's videos

[dusty badger]

[eager plover]

Actual kopitiam

Most beautiful skin ive ever seen

[dusty badger]

yer

[radiant shell]

Another Shanghainese conversation from a 1991 film, A Brighter Summer Day (牯嶺街少年殺人事件)
The film is set in Taiwan, 1960s

[dusty badger]

大家有没有吃过肉干吗

[shut radish]

啥肉乾

[dusty badger]

发送肉干照片kena写explicit

[shut radish]

🤓

discord沒色色過不知道色色是什麼

[dusty badger]

一、你的头像
二、别的名字叫bak kwa

[shut radish]

啥問題

[dusty badger]

这个

[shut radish]

我在舔照片

[dusty badger]

不会太nsfw吗……？

[shut radish]

吃過豬肉乾

[shut radish]

no

是男人

[dusty badger]

a

[shut radish]

沒吃過牛肉乾

[dusty badger]

牛的我不能吃

佛教不可吃牛肉

[shut radish]

喔

[dusty badger]

猪的可以

[shut radish]

ok

我都吃

哈

[dusty badger]

昂

[shut radish]

啥意思

[dusty badger]

ang的音声

[radiant shell]

bak kwa 就是豬肉乾 (肉乾的福建話讀法)

[shut radish]

我是bak kwa

[eager plover]

我最喜欢吃的就是这些垃圾食品

[dusty badger]

[dusty badger]

看到karas发送人讲上海话的视频突然对上海话有点儿兴趣但是……

5 level code係咩啊

[radiant shell]

linguistics stuff

[dusty badger]

啥都不明白

学上海话的资料也少

[radiant shell]

this https://www.liquisearch.com/tone_letter/chao_tone_letters_ipa

https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/38534/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-tone-numbers-shown-in-wiktionarys-mandarin-pronuncia

[dusty badger]

为啥有那么多tone system的

[radiant shell]

@eager plover

[eager plover]

I promise it sounds a lot like 青田话

It does look like some stuff my parents would watch tho

💀

[radiant shell]

it's one of the best films according to critics. it's very long though. almost 4 hours

[eager plover]

Interesting

and the native language is shanghainese

holy

[radiant shell]

oh, the film is mostly in mandarin

[eager plover]

Oh im dumb i didnt read the entire sentence

Makes sense

[radiant shell]

This film is 4-hour long. Two hours into the film, the main character's parents suddenly switched their language to Cantonese out of nowhere and I was shocked because until this point the whole film was in Mandarin, Shanghainese and Hokkien.

The couple were from Shanghai before they came to Taiwan so they could speak Shanghainese and Mandarin.
They switched to Cantonese here because they didn't want their son (who grew up in Taiwan) to understand what they were saying

Anyway I thought this scene was a pretty good showcase of Chinese languages so I am putting it here

0:06~0:33 Shanghainese
0:38~1:04 Mandarin
1:05~1:30 Cantonese

The father later swore once in the film and it was in Cantonese

[minor bluff]

idk how many people have heard of it but i found a fandub of Helluva Boss in taiwanese mandarin.

there was a lot of hokkien... i understood one phrase.. ||去食潲|| lmao...

[dusty badger]

这叫吉吗

[eager plover]

[kind solar]

So I should start with pronunciation?

[kind solar]

This is what I find fascinating about Chinese Languages. They're all different in their own ways, yet they're still connected to one another.

I really wanna learn Cantonese, but I wanna start with mandarin.

[dusty badger]

这是什么方言

[minor bluff]

台灣閩南語

台語

i think

sounds like it anyway

[dusty badger]

o

谢啦

祝这里的同胞们除夕快乐

好好回家跟家人过年

祝大家新年快乐啊

红包拿得多

[minor bluff]

我不百分之百確定

[dusty badger]

没事

[minor bluff]

haha

[radiant shell]

taiwan will be hokkien

obviously, it can be hakka as well, but hakka is fairly uncommon compared with hokkien

[dusty badger]

i see

谢啦

[minor bluff]

this guys face is pretty punchable ngl

[dusty badger]

[dusty badger]

祝大家新年快乐
恭喜发财，万事如意，身体健康，年年有余，心想事成，幸福平安，开心欢乐无边
祝世界华人过年好

[eager plover]

新年快乐兄弟们！🎊

[whole mantle]

祝你們新年快樂！ 🐰

恭喜發財

my friends are having dinner tonight

and soon they will receive their angpao 😭

[sonic salmon]

恭喜發財，利市𢭃來 🫴 🧧

前兔似錦，揚眉兔氣，大展宏兔，兔飛猛進，前兔無量，兔年大吉

[dusty badger]

那么好
还要等到太阳上山才能拿红包叻

[whole mantle]

太陽は俺だ

[minor bluff]

新年快樂~

[eager plover]

我老了。。。需要开始给红包了😢

[radiant shell]

比比

https://youtu.be/d23hMwW4c8U

[lapis canyon]

gung hei faat coi

[radiant shell]

恭喜發財！祝大家兔年行大運
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/997012238592380942/1066498411349688420/istockphoto-1402418237-612x612.jpg

[lapis canyon]

oh cool!
"兎に角"あけましておめでとうございます

how is it that this word came to be?

[eager plover]

有点像我老爸听的歌 - -

[radiant shell]

ateji

[radiant shell]

yes, my dad also used to play this CD every year on CNY

[eager plover]

hhh

[dusty badger]

还没结婚就OK不用给

[radiant shell]

夠無恥的話可以跟我堂姐一樣 40歲了還跟她男友一起討紅包

omg the way i worded it in chinese is so harsh lol

[minor bluff]

lmaooo

[kind solar]

Someday I'll be having conversations in Chinese.

[dusty badger]

昨天去了超市逛了逛tm Twinnings比Dilmah茶那么贵

[radiant shell]

lol twinings is a famous british brand

overrated though, ahmad is better

[dusty badger]

啊在家有ahmad earl grey茶

只剩几包欸

[dusty badger]

红包来咯

[eager plover]

我感觉很可爱- -

很かわいいです

[radiant shell]

Trust me it's really not

I'm sure the seniors are all gossiping behind their backs

[eager plover]

微信红包？还是真正的

[radiant shell]

real life ones of course.....

i didnt even know you could give red packets "virtually"

is it even a red packet lol

[dusty badger]

https://tenor.com/view/laugh-laughing-red-envelope-click-to-open-gif-13355814

他妈的又是美国人在到处开枪杀人

这是计划针对性的攻击

他妈美国还要枪枪枪

[eager plover]

No wechat in HK?

[radiant shell]

HK people don't use mainland stuff

[eager plover]

rest in peace

Thats why ive always been skeptical about going to the us

[eager plover]

I have little to no knowledge about mainland in general :/

left since i was 5

[dusty badger]

管理人请问我说那个句子被警告的……忘了说错什么欸…

[dusty badger]

所以我姐说要去美国读书时担心了

看美国现在的情况现在很危险

都不敢去

[eager plover]

我旅游都不敢

真的是危险

欧洲最好了

100%

[radiant shell]

(sorry can't react with all european flags)

[whole mantle]

Just remember no touchy topics no matter how much you want to bring them up, thanks

[dusty badger]

我说的太离谱了
对不起

[dusty badger]

欧洲对我说还OK

还挺安全的

最好的可以去法国/德国

来给你们看这个
https://twitter.com/MothershipSG/status/1617125581904318465?s=20&t=nA8ABytdH5U7GExiWd0GFA

Mothership.sg (@MothershipSG)

Tiger cub bites rabbit as China zookeepers try symbolic passing of zodiac baton for CNY 2023

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[eager plover]

我爱上西班牙了

准备一辈子呆在这里

[dusty badger]

我想在新加坡继续做工

然后去泰国退休

是啊我是爱国的人

但是新加坡真的太他妈贵了不能在新加坡退休

如果泰语学的不好

那就是去中国退休吧

[eager plover]

巴塞罗那也有点贵，但是只是房租贵

我应该也会考虑回中国退休

到时候再说

[dusty badger]

我们这里全部都贵

[dusty badger]

是啊

现在我还小

[eager plover]

多大了？

[dusty badger]

该看我老的时候才想要去哪里退休吧

[eager plover]

不想回没事

[dusty badger]

26号15岁

[eager plover]

wocao我比你大10岁

[dusty badger]

[eager plover]

😂

[dusty badger]

我还以为你只比我老几年而已

[eager plover]

现在就考虑这些东西

挺nb

[dusty badger]

太早了吧

[eager plover]

hhh

不会不会

[young lichen]

It’s crazy and feels weird because I used to go this city often to get boba or go to Asian supermarkets…

so sad:(

[whole mantle]

Is LA a good place to live (excluding this incident)? I've seen people describe it as soulless

[radiant shell]

if you are rich then sure

if not, forget it

my friend's sister studied cinematography in this city and she said people in this city are very very removed from reality, it seems like they are living in a fantasy land

just look at beverly hills lol

[whole mantle]

Yeah there's no denying that

Who would've thought that hollywood is living in fantasy land

[radiant shell]

and yet there are also neighbourhoods like compton

anyway i think LA is a mess 💀

A lot of film noir/crime films are set in LA probably because it gives out that kind of atmosphere

There were huge riots in 1992 too

p.s. Watch LA Confidential and Chinatown

[sonic salmon]

my favourite affordable middle-class suburb

[whole mantle]

i think beverly hills is pretty working class when you compare it with versailles though

still trying to get that 5 million dollar loan from my dad

😔

[sonic salmon]

the other day my dad merely gave me a 200B loan

so stingy 🙄

[whole mantle]

bruh

does he not know how harsh life is right now

How can parents be so heartless to their kids

tell papa shake i said this: blubblubublubublllubublub

[sonic salmon]

it's ok my dad gave me 800B more because I cried and threw a tantrum yay

[whole mantle]

oh nice

https://tenor.com/view/rosmt-salmon-shocked-gif-25392218

[sonic salmon]

https://tenor.com/view/spy-x-family-anime-anya-forger-shock-what-gif-25492650

[light osprey]

there are places that you should just stay away from

as well as not being out at night in cities

[light osprey]

在我奶奶的微信的group chat里大家都送电子红包，第一个人点到才得所以大家都在抢

[eager plover]

Hi guys, is there any way to easily learn onyomi from chinese?

[kind solar]

How does the hsk go for characters

Hsk1-hsk6?

If so, there are lists of hsk1 characters right?

[lapis canyon]

something i found online

oh wait i don't think that's what you were asking for i'm sorry

i can't find much about characters but there's a vocab list https://hsk.academy/en/hsk-1-vocabulary-list

[lapis canyon]

"chinese"
but the similarity between japanese onyomi and different chinese languages varies

[radiant shell]

we can tell kunyomi and onyomi apart easily, and onyomi readings can be predictable once you are familiar with Japanese, but I don't think there is an easy way to memorise onyomi

Especially if you are a Mandarin speaker

Mandarin is too different from middle Chinese

E.g.世界
Mandarin: shijie
Cantonese: sai3 gaai3
Min nan: sè-kài / sì-kài
Japanese: sekai
Korean: segye
Okinawan: しけー

[kind solar]

No no it's fine. Thank you!

I could stand to look around more ofc.

Hmm yeah looks like a lot of vocab lists. I guess it's for the best. Maybe Chinese isn't set up like Japanese when it comes to kanji/hanzi, is it?

Like learning it.

To be clear

[radiant shell]

Sorry but I'm not sure what you mean

[kind solar]

Yk how you categorize kanji by grade level or JLPT level.

Is it similar?

Sorry if I don't make sense I'm a little sleep deprived.

[radiant shell]

I haven't taken HSK but from my understanding, there are hanzi and vocabs assigned to each level, so it works a bit like JLPT

I think someone in this server said HSK was far too easy compared to TOCFL

(HSK is the test used in Mainland China and TOCFL is the test used in Taiwan)

[kind solar]

Tbh I just need a list of basic Hanzi similar to n5

[kind solar]

Dang any reason why

[radiant shell]

HSK vs. TOCFL: Which is More Difficult?

I don't have an answer to this question, but I will make this observation: time and again I've seen people post messages in this subreddit to the effect of:

"Hi all! I've been studying Chinese for six months and I'm currently at HSK 4, preparing for level 5, and I have a few questions..."

Based on my experience with the TOCFL, I can say that 99% of learners have a 0.01% chance of passing TOCFL Level 4 (Band B test), and a 0% chance of passing Level 5 (Band C) after six months of study.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChineseLanguage/comments/5kqc82/comment/dbpvclx/

[kind solar]

Yk i should start with Chinese classification. Writing down kinds of Chinese (i.e. Cantonese, mandarin, shanghainese, etc.)

[kind solar]

Ill save this for later

I should get some sleep eventually

[blazing valley]

Is it easier for a Japanese speaker to learn Chinese than vice versa

[radiant shell]

probably easier for a chinese to learn japanese because chinese has tones and a lot more phonemes

onyomi is basically just chinese readings but a lot more simplified

[grim ferry]

Karas

寺持時侍 are all pronounced similarly in Cantonese
zi2 ci4 si4 si6

They are all ji in japanese
ji ji ji (ji)

Jump

[Go to message!](#lounge message)

#lounge

[minor bluff]

gee.

japanese phonology slacking /j

except for う or smth apparently idk

[eager plover]

分かる、谢谢卡先生

[dusty badger]

我来试试翻译啊

东京韩日语学校实际讲座23333333333

老师：学习的内容是象声词
狗叫的声音韩日语是什么呢？
学生：inu！inu！
老师：有一点离谱的
这有没有想好吗？
狗叫的声音
韩语是：멍（meong）
日语是：わん
所以呢
韩日语是叫：mwan~
跟我来
学生：mwan~
老师：现在没有人是说mowang的
而是说mwan
学生：mwang
不是这样的发音不对的

[dusty badger]

https://twitter.com/Natsuki_CHTH/status/1617839634913935369?s=20&t=vaW9wG5ok1j7V4IQ6ap-Tg

夏季🦪日本人中国語講師 (@Natsuki_CHTH)

「ムーンライト伝説」の替え歌で「🌙ムーンライト簡体字🌙」を歌いました。
音が出ますので注意。

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[whole mantle]

Why does it sound like North Korean music

[dusty badger]

what?

[eager plover]

"One"

[whole mantle]

idk, that could have come out of moranbong band

[minor bluff]

LMAO

[eager plover]

Hhhh，我刚刚日语考试出来

拿着我的日语书

🗿

[dusty badger]

I listened to it again now It kinda does

[dusty badger]

通过没

[eager plover]

应该通过

我本来是昨天考试的，但是昨天我大学考试没时间，然后老师叫我今天过来，tmd她拉我去任何的教室去，我好尴尬。我就20分钟后逃走了💀

[dusty badger]

加油

[dusty badger]

祝：离我死亡近一年

[dusty badger]

今天生日想祝大家过年好

[light osprey]

哇，生日快乐!

[eager plover]

生日快乐🎂

[blazing valley]

生日快樂

[blazing valley]

I see thank you
Even with katakana and hiragana, though?

[radiant shell]

Not sure what that means

[dusty badger]

谢谢大家

[blazing valley]

uh
since learning japanese requires you to learn the two additional alphabets/new terms?

[radiant shell]

Oh I thought you were talking about onyomi

The syllabary system is not that difficult to understand

Sure, there are a lot of new terms but the same goes with other languages

[dusty badger]

가좌(gajwa)很像潮州话「蟑螂」的字欸 ga tzua

[eager plover]

Can my chinese friends stop marrying at their 20s

Like pleaseeeeee

[dusty badger]

LMAO

[blazing valley]

[dusty badger]

https://twitter.com/SecondRingSZN/status/1618808859329695744?s=20&t=RLqtcLj0vm5qsnj2E7D5ug very nice train

来都来了 (@SecondRingSZN)

Chinese slow train

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[shut radish]

New york trains be like

[dusty badger]

[eager plover]

I read 晩ご飯をたべますか in my head, the first time

Actually failing at being chinese

[dusty badger]

[minor bluff]

LMAO HOW

[dusty badger]

笑死

鏟 - 铲
冚家鏟 - 全家si

[minor bluff]

“Tan. F*** a tan. Hey where’s your phone huh?”

[dusty badger]

?

[minor bluff]

What it sounds like to someone who doesn’t speak that language

[dusty badger]

[minor bluff]

Added bonus that f*** is an offensive word in English lmao

[dusty badger]

true

[eager plover]

Idk..

[light osprey]

yoasobi pfp

[dusty badger]

where got

[light osprey]

夜にかける

[dusty badger]

orh cheh

[dusty badger]

https://twitter.com/GUTS_1997/status/1619219017532862466?t=fg2H0HDgB9iCOeWfBf5c5g&s=19

Aim forever 🇨🇳🇷🇺 (@GUTS_1997)

中日両国の学生合唱《これが大事》 @xuejianosaka @YAMAMO2021 @ronliziuecchi @tonkin8888 @YuXincheng_kin @takeru52yanag

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Twitter · Jan 28, 2023, 6:21 AM

[blazing valley]

[eager plover]

卡姐姐走了

This chat doesnt make sense anymore

[dusty badger]

why she gone

tell me

did the some caca hit the fan

[eager plover]

ill dm you

[dusty badger]

xie xie

[light osprey]

i read the bottom in japanese before realizing it wasnt 😭

[grim ferry]

[kind solar]

I can't even begin to understand Chinese.

[light osprey]

its not as hard as japanese

[dusty badger]

Come I translate

[dusty badger]

I told my 10 year old niece to go downstairs to buy newspaper

She laughed at me and said: "uncle, times have changed, use my phone"

I then slammed her phone on the wall to kill a spider

Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions

[minor bluff]

translation? (i cant read some of those characters lol

[cyan granite]

The comment looks a bit questionable in the server standard tho

[shut radish]

i want to turn my dad into an drug girl ?, that way i can have a big sister

[shut radish]

bottom comment: your dad should’ve shot you onto the wall

or why didnt your dad shoot you on the wall

[minor bluff]

🤨

[grim ferry]

[dusty badger]

no la they meant those 姑娘 at 药店

[shut radish]

i honestly dont know

im guessing

[grim ferry]

[minor bluff]

im so confused

girl at the drug store??

[dusty badger]

Pharmacist

[kind solar]

Ahh

[grim ferry]

[dusty badger]

这样的名字我也蒙了

[minor bluff]

poor kid

and i thought my name took ages to write (no, im just slow)

[dusty badger]

i take like 15 seconds to write my name :kekw:

[dusty badger]

太难写了

写名字6秒

笑死人

[minor bluff]

I’ll be disappointed if she doesn’t become a pop artist

[dusty badger]

HAHAAHAHHAHA

[shut radish]

clink clonk

⏰

[minor bluff]

Bruh

[blazing valley]

can I save this image

[dusty badger]

yea why not

[minor bluff]

where did u get this from?

[dusty badger]

twitter

a chinese meme account

[blazing valley]

random question, but ...
I've been studying japanese using english-to-japanese textbooks, but those are mostly targeted toward learners with little to no prior knowledge of kanji
is there a more efficient way of memorizing kanji pronounciations if you already know chinese?

or resources recommended for learning japanese from chinese

😭 我忘记我应该在这儿用中文

[blazing valley]

... 我已经觉得学日语算难得了，真的想不到不认识汉字的人多不容易

[minor bluff]

hwat

[minor bluff]

yall

[dusty badger]

装逼？

[minor bluff]

yes

[dusty badger]

神经病

「日本是上帝的选择」

我把你送去见上帝要不 💀

[minor bluff]

拜託你呀
那是twitter 大家都神經病

[grim ferry]

you're not wrong

the meowgical fairycat

[Reply to:](#1020752384756043876 message) 拜託你呀
那是twitter 大家都神經病

[minor bluff]

Anti 🇰🇵
這還需要寫嗎？

有誰在支持呢？（除了那些edgy teenager）

[dusty badger]

我知道些人支持朝鲜的

[dusty badger]

而且不是edgy少年

[blazing valley]

这是在开玩笑吗

[dusty badger]

不是喎

[blazing valley]

[dusty badger]

妈呀你看他们的推特账户你需要把眼睛挖出来拿来西喎

[cyan granite]

Regardless of stances and ideologies, we don't talk about politics in this server, refer to #rules

[dusty badger]

o

[blazing valley]

Understood, I'm sorry

[dusty badger]

华文的"你问我我问谁"日语怎么说

[minor bluff]

あなたは私に聞きますが、私は誰に聞きますか hehe

[grim ferry]

[dusty badger]

https://twitter.com/rambutangerine/status/1637974639598096384?t=aEZEx4jM8V3nfvqp-aqY-g&s=19

orang (@rambutangerine)

A guide to Chinese reaction images, or biaoqingbao 🧵

Biaoqingbao have been an integral part of Chinese internet culture since it first came to be. While the term is used nowadays to refer to any online reaction image (this extends to Western memes, too), classic biaoqingbao are

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Twitter · Mar 21, 2023, 12:29 AM

表情包！！ 💪

[kind solar]

Chinese question

What's the kanji you use to represent your currency

[light osprey]

yuan

fuck

元

人民币

both work

元/人民币 = chinese yuan
日元 = japanese yen
美元 = usd
港币 = hong kong dollar
比特币 = bitcoin

both 元 and 币 seem to be currency

@kind solar

[dusty badger]

元

you can use 币 to represent currency also

like the person on top of me say

人民币 rmb
日币/日元 jpy
美币/美元(more common) usd
港币 hkd
新币 sgd
新台币 twd
马币 rmb

some do have exception tho

like 泰铢 thai baht

非宜宾比索 philippines peso

[light osprey]

英镑

british pound

forgot about that one

[dusty badger]

yes

[kind solar]

hmmm what's the deal with 圆

[light osprey]

?

[dusty badger]

圆 means circle or round

[kind solar]

was it ever used to refer to currency

[dusty badger]

non

it has no relations to currency

[kind solar]

bc I know that's where the shinjitai 円 comes from

right

[dusty badger]

well idk where 円 comes from lmao

[kind solar]

so in modern day chinese it has no relation?

[dusty badger]

nope

[light osprey]

thats weird tbh. never thought about 円

noe

[dusty badger]

modern day chinese no relation at all

ancient chinese maybe but we dont know

[light osprey]

its funny how currency in china and japan are like opposites

ppl use alipay and wechat pay in china almost all the time

whereas in japan people usually use cash

i think

[dusty badger]

modernisation ig

or china is just more advanced in paying for their stuff

unrelated but like

when i was visiting Wat Pho in Bangkok

[main frigate]

圓 is the Han character for “circle”, which was simplified into 圆 in Simplified Chinese and 円 in Japanese.

The Japanese yen derives from, and is written as, 円, a common word for a circle. (As for why it’s listed at the top in the image macro, it’s mostly my bias for my patria, partially due to its prominence in global trade.)

The Chinese yuan is now written as an unrelated character 元, but it has origins in 圓, of which it is a homophone in Standard Mandarin.

Both Korean wons are now written as 원 (in hangul), but it too derives from 圓.

The last three are written as 圓 in Chinese for historical reasons. The Mongolian tögrög, also meaning “circle”, is also written as 圓 on occasion.

[kind solar]

oh yeah I couldn't find the trad character

not like I could see it anyway on this shit screen

I hate computer screens

all pixels

[dusty badger]

i was drinking some water and this american dude was talking to his tour guide about how he didnt exchange cash to thai baht because he went to iceland and everything was digital 💀

[light osprey]

last time i was in china was 2016 though idk how shits changed

[dusty badger]

mm so beautiful

[kind solar]

thank you lepard

[dusty badger]

MMMMMMMMM

[kind solar]

what fontttttt

[dusty badger]

im on chromebook i use google sans font and i use discord in chinese on google website

i think its applicable for chinese only because when i switch to japanese the font goes back

[dusty badger]

https://tenor.com/view/aaaa-gif-25651926

[main frigate]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/988194846110011434/1047583675400851537/ezgif.com-gif-maker_1.gif

[kind solar]

oh it did change

but to a shittier font

actually it's a little more readable

[light osprey]

im using a proxy to access discord from school shits so slow 😭

[kind solar]

the kana though lol

[grim ferry]

[dusty badger]

very nice, schweet

[light osprey]

mac os kana font is fire ngl

[dusty badger]

this font more fire

look at that ゆ

[light osprey]

pretty sure that is mac os

looks like it to me

[dusty badger]

no this is chromebook :kek:

[light osprey]

thats a good jp font

[dusty badger]

ahora

[light osprey]

better than the shit we have

[dusty badger]

thats not bad

pretty standard imo

windows pc discord application the characters look very ugly

[kind solar]

Yeah I just hate computer fontss

[light osprey]

fr

[kind solar]

there are entirely too many pixels

[dusty badger]

宋体（體） :pepepray:

[kind solar]

welp

now my discord is in chinese

[dusty badger]

is it any better

or worse

[kind solar]

well idk

I like the han character font a bit more

but that's it

Back to phone

Looks a lot better

[minor bluff]

美金（usd)、台幣／台币（ntd）

sometimes 元 for ntd if its clear from context

[light osprey]

oh yeah 金

not common though

[minor bluff]

oh.

lol

[minor bluff]

you’re not common!

[dusty badger]

I've never seen anyone use 美金 in Singapore lol

People say 美元 or 美币

[light osprey]

ya

[dusty badger]

okay nevermind I take that back

美金 is used

But

it's not used in daily speecu

[sonic salmon]

lol

smhsmh

[minor bluff]

well, im not in Singapore

[dusty badger]

lol

[shut radish]

hello

[dusty badger]

video: でぐち
me: "ちゅうこうー"

[light osprey]

hahahaha

its actually でぐち

i see how it would be confusing

its a chinese word

but uses kunyomi

入口
にゅうこう

[dusty badger]

:trol:

[minor bluff]

😭

[minor bluff]

啊這一隻到底會不會講中文

[dusty badger]

it's not!

both 入口 and 出口 are japanese words

they were later borrowed by chinese

[minor bluff]

my life is a lie

[light osprey]

whaa

thats crazy

ty for correcting me!

[minor bluff]

https://preview.redd.it/5kx14hnqxisa1.jpg?width=720&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=cb9dec4a6c1d95d3c6b44cac29755cf1aee1eff8

[light osprey]

LOL

[kind solar]

Lmao I think I saw that somewhere else

What does the writing say

The top part

[dusty badger]

"Please write a sentence to describe rain getting heavier, use at least two rhetorical devices"

雨 = rain

then the child just increased the amount of 丶s in the word

[blazing valley]

HELP

yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[dusty badger]

大陆网友edit闽南语歌曲爱拼才会赢骂那个蔡英文我看到我笑死了

[light osprey]

改歌词?

[dusty badger]

改歌词+改歌名

[light osprey]

哈哈

[dusty badger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD-lD5ADsY4

[dusty badger]

昨天的我

[blazing valley]

[thorny bear]

淹死的魚
恐高的鳥
愛我的你
呵
♥️

• Sun Tzu

[main frigate]

i didn't understand anything, but this was poetic ❤️

[thorny bear]

Thanks, it really beautiful 👍

[dusty badger]

Text:
A fish that drowns
A bird that is scared of heights
A you that loves me
(sigh)

Speech:
How can a fish drown?
How can a bird be scared of heights?
So how can you love me?
(insert broken heart lol)

[dusty badger]

文言文老師們：

[light osprey]

lmao

nice <3

[dusty badger]

推荐：我小时候喜欢的歌：「攻心计」
https://youtu.be/4Zu3aFpZJng

[light osprey]

some people pronounce na as la
拿 = la
脑 = lao

[sonic salmon]

Cantonese speakers

[blazing valley]

https://tenor.com/view/wheeze-laugh-gif-14359545

[dusty badger]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CrkuV6Hrmcb/

dinnndang_00

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Instagram

[light osprey]

what does that mean

[dusty badger]

"touch my plants again and i will replant you"

[light osprey]

oh

like i knew what it meant but

touch my plants again and ill plant you

[nimble geode]

好好吃wohh

[dusty badger]

人已经走了

[nimble geode]

噢哈哈

才知道

呵呵

[light osprey]

egg tart中文怎么说，我忘了

😂

好久都没去中国了

[dusty badger]

蛋挞

[minor bluff]

is there a gender-neutral word in mandarin for smth like boyfriend/girlfriend?

i need help lmao

not that my parents would be very happy w/ this but i want to know if there are any gender-neutral words anyway

[sonic salmon]

情人・恋人

[minor bluff]

how often is 戀人 used?

[dusty badger]

I think both are used commonly

pretty commonplace to use it

[dusty badger]

祝大家

我我我我我 单单单单单 身身身身身
我 单 身 身
我我我我我 单单单单单 身 身
我 单 身 身
我我我我我 单单单单单 身身身身身

快乐

[minor bluff]

“520”? “S20”?

[dusty badger]

520

[minor bluff]

wha—

[dusty badger]

鸭灭碟
啥意思

[tepid flint]

止めて

就是请停止

[dusty badger]

笑

[tepid flint]

啧啧

少看点

对身体不好

[dusty badger]

笑笑

我是从Instagram学的

我很少看动画的

[dusty badger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJeh8wAzkQs

[broken onyx]

早安大家

[light osprey]

嗨！

[molten stratus]

Hi, do we have any Taiwanese people who live/did a long term exchange in Japan?

[dusty badger]

希腊奶

[grim ferry]

[sonic salmon]

早安~

[dusty badger]

早上好～

[sonic salmon]

早上好JLSS現在我有冰淇淋

[dusty badger]

人是吃还是喝冰淇淋的啊

[sonic salmon]

看它溶不溶

[dusty badger]

（笑）

[broken onyx]

你吃了嗎

[sonic salmon]

在吃著午飯啊~妳呢？

[dusty badger]

从来没有看过人用妳咧

好像只有台湾用欸

[dusty badger]

现在只几点吃午饭

[broken onyx]

我在吃🍙🍫

[dusty badger]

给我下さい

[sonic salmon]

什麼呀，我比平時早點兒吃不行嗎 😂

[sonic salmon]

onionionigirii

oniongiri

[dusty badger]

https://tenor.com/view/aaaa-gif-25651926

[sick locust]

原來有這個地方

[broken onyx]

のぞむくん 說（寫？）中文嗎…?

[sick locust]

YES

[broken onyx]

🥺很好

[sick locust]

[broken onyx]

繁体字？

[sick locust]

YES

台湾人です

[broken onyx]

謝謝臺灣

[sick locust]

こちらこそ、ありがとうございます。🙇‍♂️

[tepid flint]

哇塞

你连中文也会？？

[broken onyx]

對不起 I’m super beginner and wakaranai af

[tepid flint]

chinese is hard but it really helps when learning kanji

[broken onyx]

So true !!

[tepid flint]

I'm a chinese although i dont know how to pronounce that fking kanji, but i know what's the meaning of the kanji, feels good rn

[tepid flint]

[sick locust]

True

[dusty badger]

Chinese speakers can just bs their way through kanji lol

[tepid flint]

What is bs xD

[light osprey]

bullshit

[sonic salmon]

我而家食緊點心 🤩🤩

蝦餃咁好食呀

[dusty badger]

我唔大會粵語喎

[sonic salmon]

冇問題~

[dusty badger]

（心痛）

[sick locust]

[sick locust]

買空氣送洋芋片

[tepid flint]

其他薯片品牌：非常に同意します

[tepid flint]

Yeaaa

[dusty badger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG7E6smLIEM

[sonic salmon]

yknow what's weird friend

I don't listen to Mandarin/Cantonese songs like... at all 😂

[sick locust]

你會聽台語歌喔?

還是你只是隨便貼上來的

[sonic salmon]

應該會的吧哈哈

[dusty badger]

乾一杯不错欸

爱平才会赢也是

[sick locust]

年代也太久遠

🤣

[dusty badger]

我比较喜欢比较旧的歌

[sick locust]

茄子蛋那些也不錯R

[dusty badger]

这几天的歌我不太喜欢

[sick locust]

[sonic salmon]

Back in muhhhh dayy muziks was better!!!1!

想當年moment

[dusty badger]

我给你们看我spotify playlist觉得怎样

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/26H9fxPdqcJvBA73dAIbHr

[sonic salmon]

不想看ふーん

[sick locust]

WOW COOL!

還有俄歌欸

[dusty badger]

我啥歌肯听

不要英语（除了一些）我就O K的

[sonic salmon]

為何呢LOL

英文的罷了

[dusty badger]

其实里面有180+歌曲的啊但是只show前100个

[dusty badger]

不喜欢啊

有时听到英语我会cringe到

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_lsdnTkM54

这不错咧

[sick locust]

超久之前的民視八點檔

[dusty badger]

很旧对啊

[sick locust]

他們到現在還有在演出

[dusty badger]

笑

这首歌

在这边变了一个meme

[minor bluff]

他的老師是誰

[dusty badger]

whot

[minor bluff]

這個例句到底想當繁體還是簡體啊

[sick locust]

先不管繁簡體，這文字配色是尛?

[dusty badger]

https://tenor.com/view/bocchi-bocchi-the-rock-anime-hitori-gotou-you-wot-gif-27026760

[minor bluff]

照聲調配色

一聲是紅色，二聲是黃色

三聲是綠色

四聲是藍色

[sick locust]

這樣超難看...

[minor bluff]

對我來講根本沒屁用，反而有點干擾 但mdbg就是這樣

[sick locust]

[minor bluff]

找到設定了

可以關掉聲調配色

[dusty badger]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1070650165821714452/1111238182449729577/image0.gif

[blazing valley]

https://tenor.com/view/bing-gif-25601964

It haunts me ...

[blazing valley]

[blazing valley]

The joy of attempting to comprehend a Japanese phrase by skipping over the hiragana and pronouncing the kanji in Chinese

[blazing valley]

😭

[dusty badger]

the joy indeed

[minor bluff]

i have done this before

didnt help

cuz im half illiterate (oftentimes i need context to be able to read shit)

heritage speaker moment

i bullshitted my way through chinese school

[blazing valley]

give her back

[blazing valley]

[dusty badger]

non

[blazing valley]

I ... I have money ...

[dusty badger]

state your price

[minor bluff]

lmao

[sonic salmon]

早上好JLSS，現在我沒有冰淇淋

我本來昨晚想買，過後到了冰淇淋店店員又説它賣完了 AAAAAA

かなしいかなしいかなしい

[light osprey]

noooo

[blazing valley]

!!!

[blazing valley]

let's start at one month of discord nitro /j

[dusty badger]

let's start at one year or discord nitro /j

[blazing valley]

But only nitro basic

[dusty badger]

non

[kind solar]

You can learn Cantonese without mandarin right?

That's probably a dumb question

Actually I just answered my own question

Cantonese and Mandarin are not the same language 😭 so ofc

I should talk in here more too

[minor bluff]

加油吧！我希望你奶奶找得回來

[blazing valley]

😭 谢谢

[blazing valley]

depending on how exactly you're asking, but yes haha
not a dumb question, they're often grouped together, so it's reasonable to wonder

even with dialects/languages that sound very similar to standard mandarin, they can be learned independently

I think

or maybe I'm misunderstanding

[dusty badger]

can

[dusty badger]

For me all my Cantonese is learn from my family 💀

and they never taught me

[dusty badger]

啥

[sonic salmon]

玍鳥

[sterile tide]

forgot threads existed

[sterile tide]

悲傷

[deep kindle]

[kind solar]

哈囉

[deep kindle]

你好

[sick locust]

哈囉

都忘了還有這地方了

[broken onyx]

早安

さくれとのぞむくんとへるにゃん
我想請你們　華語勉強を手伝う

[deep kindle]

[sonic salmon]

早安早安

好久沒在這兒聊了呀

愛奈加油~

[broken onyx]

謝謝你🙏🏻

|| (読む練習に使うからしゃべってね…) ||

[light osprey]

嗨~~

[deep kindle]

嗨

[minor bluff]

哇，這裡有人欸

(i just spent forever writing that using the Array ime)

(pain)

[deep kindle]

what's the Array ime?

[minor bluff]

行列輸入法

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNZkMPNi_Qk

[deep kindle]

看起來有點難

[minor bluff]

easy is boring

[deep kindle]

[minor bluff]

and cangjie is too popular to be cool

idk how popular dayi is but it’s on taiwanese keycaps sooo

[deep kindle]

I use shuangpin

[minor bluff]

i usually use ㄅㄆㄇㄈ

which english speakers often call “boe poe moe foe”

[deep kindle]

[minor bluff]

pinyin is boring, shuangpin is cool

[minor bluff]

what does that mean

[deep kindle]

nothing

I just don't know what to say

[minor bluff]

ah lol

[deep kindle]

The shuangpin I use is Xiaohe shuangpin

https://www.flypy.com/

[minor bluff]

there are different types of shuangpin?

[deep kindle]

yes

layouts are different

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/双拼

[dusky bobcat]

ルーナというネコ

請問你用甚麼輸入法？

1⃣ 拼音
2⃣ 注音
3⃣ 倉頡
4⃣ 大易
5⃣ 雙拼
6⃣ 行列
7⃣ 五筆
8⃣ 速成

[minor bluff]

9、手寫

（i cant remember any other input methods）(note that i dont actually use handwrite, im just reacting so theres smth to click on)

you’re allowed to choose multiple

[sonic salmon]

手寫呢

[minor bluff]

do you 手寫 on a electric brain?

[minor bluff]

done

[light osprey]

bootleg kana

[minor bluff]

fuck you /j

[sick locust]

[minor bluff]

o . o

[deep kindle]