…how to distinguish them.
How to distinguish Asian languages
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) April 17, 2025
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I think he only does Mandarin, not Cantonese.
…how to distinguish them.
How to distinguish Asian languages
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) April 17, 2025
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I think he only does Mandarin, not Cantonese.
I would like the post but for some reason @Rainmaker1973 has me blocked…. must be a leftist.
Whoever runs that handle probably isn’t whoever blocked you.
The only thing he left out on Filipino is the occasional English word thrown in at random, known as Taglish. Also, most Filipinos I’ve met speak at a rate exceeding an MG-42 machine gun.
Source: Filipina wife for almost 42 years.
Ages ago when I was at university studying computer science we had a few Chinese teens attending, they would often study in a group, and I would get amused listening to them chatter in their native language with the occasional English word thrown in like “integer”
I overheard my Chinese coworker talking on the phone to her friends in Mandarin with English tech terms and idioms mixed in like “just in case”, and “ok”. When I asked her about it, she said the English term was shorter or the idiom didn’t exist (ex: “just in case”) or make sense in Mandarin . She admitted that she had to “filter” her language for friends that didn’t speak English.
Think about how many words in English are borrowed from other languages.
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