Joss was right... Mandarin is the language of the future... by Micronaut

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Joss was right... Mandarin is the language of the future...

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Sunday, April 12, 2026 2:57 PM

Why is "och" (and) not spelled "og" in Swedish?

https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/11863/why-is-och-and-n
ot-spelled-og-in-swedish

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Sunday, April 12, 2026 3:12 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
22 years after this thread was created and the only time I hear people speaking Chink talk is in the movies.

but how many places did you visit since...you went to Brazil, Poland, Japan, Bulgaria, Argentina, South Korea, North Korea, France, Cuba, Peru, Turkmenistan, Austria, Russia, Vietnam, Lebanon, Italy, Philippines since?

have u even been to a local Chinatown in NYC or California?

if you want to find language I'm sure you can also find Arabic or Hispanic cultures in the USA

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Sunday, April 12, 2026 3:14 PM

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How I Would Learn Spanish (if I could start over in 2026)

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Sunday, April 12, 2026 5:21 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
22 years after this thread was created and the only time I hear people speaking Chink talk is in the movies.

but how many places did you visit since...you went to Brazil, Poland, Japan, Bulgaria, Argentina, South Korea, North Korea, France, Cuba, Peru, Turkmenistan, Austria, Russia, Vietnam, Lebanon, Italy, Philippines since?

No. I haven't. Are you making a claim that people are speaking Chinese in any of these countries? That would be the first time I've EVER heard anybody making that particular claim.

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have u even been to a local Chinatown in NYC or California?

You wouldn't catch me dead in California or New York. But if I did go to a Chinatown, I would expect that they spoke Chinese there. I believe that Chicago has one too, and I've never been there even though it's in my backyard.

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if you want to find language I'm sure you can also find Arabic or Hispanic cultures in the USA

Well yeah... We all know that. Thanks Democrats.

But this is a thread about Chinese, and the Mexicans and sand jawas don't speak it.

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Monday, April 13, 2026 5:55 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

rapid economic growth from the 60s and a 1980s, 1990s Bubble Economy

Japan's economic boom and atmosphere in the 1980s

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

No. I haven't. Are you making a claim that people are speaking Chinese in any of these countries?

Chinatowns are everywhere

in the 80s and 90s they got populated with people fleeing HongKong the fear of politics going back to mainland Communist China

the Chinatowns of Brazil, Canada, Mexico City Spanish or Portuguese Chinatowns and barrios chinos, or bairros chines, SouthAfrica Chinatown, London, England as well as major Chinatowns in Birmingham, Liverpool, Newcastle, and Manchester, Berlin, Rome Italy, Adelaide Chinatown Australia, Sydney Chinatown, Melbourne Chinatown, Bangkok Chinatown, Jakarta Chinatown, Yokohama Chinatown Japan...they spoke mostly Cantonese in a lot of these places not Mandarin then Mandarin Mainland speakers started to go overseas.
In the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80s people didnt speak much of China it was closed off, no phones, no robots, no space satellites, the immigrant culture of 'Little Italy' or 'Little Tokyo' or people went to a Jew Yiddish Hebrew area, that was more important, some Japanese became part of the USA
Korean Americans had an impact
the Konglish or Koreatown shooting off the rooftops they probably saved a city from burning to the ground during the LA Riots, there is still a big Koreatown in New Jersey, USA
also the USA is becoming more 'Somali'

eventually Chinatowns will fade and get replaced by some other immigrant communities...the might even return home if the West goes to shit

immigrant cultures arrive and you get more 'Mexico' Spanglish, Arabia-stani, Brazil, Hindu-towns, Singlish, Africa Haiti communities, Slavics, Russian, Scottish, Ukraine, Vietnamese, Balkan and other Ethnic enclave.
...keep wars going and you will find movements and invasions of desperate peoples across the world.
Currently the Canadians looks like a giant mix of Bangladesh, Libya, India, Iraq, Kenya and Pakistan

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Monday, April 13, 2026 7:46 AM

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The Oldest Languages Still Spoken Today

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Monday, April 13, 2026 7:50 AM

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Pronunciation Differences - in Taiwan vs. in China

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Monday, April 13, 2026 7:51 AM

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Faroese Meets Old English - One Language Family, 1,000 Years Apart

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Monday, April 13, 2026 7:54 AM

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Kardashian English - Proof that It's Annoying AF | Valley Girl Upspeak, Vocal Fry

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Tuesday, April 14, 2026 5:02 AM

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South Korea thinks Trump has lost his mind and is posting Narcissism is a self-centered religion gibberish

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Tuesday, April 14, 2026 5:02 AM

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Donald Trump s'en prend au pape Léon XIV après son message antiguerre

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Tuesday, April 14, 2026 1:49 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
South Korea thinks Trump has lost his mind and is posting Narcissism is a self-centered religion gibberish

Yes. I'm sure that South Korea is a hive mind. I'm sure all they do is sit around thinking about Trump all day long like Ted and Second too.

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Thursday, April 16, 2026 8:07 AM

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How to Actually Learn Chinese (A Smarter Approach)

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Saturday, April 18, 2026 9:50 AM

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Mastering IoT Devices Pronunciation: Say It Right Every Time

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Sunday, April 19, 2026 5:07 AM

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Is Dutch being REPLACED? (no but seriously)

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Monday, April 20, 2026 8:36 AM

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China to carry out intensive space missions in 2026

https://www.chinadailyhk.com/hk/article/632165#China-to-carry-out-inte
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Tuesday, April 21, 2026 4:27 AM

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Book-loving society takes shape in China

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Thursday, April 23, 2026 2:23 PM

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Thursday, April 23, 2026 3:24 PM

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Friday, April 24, 2026 4:34 AM

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Saturday, April 25, 2026 4:08 AM

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How AI English and human English differ – and how to decide when to use artificial language

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How to Learn and Read the Korean Alphabet (Hangul) in 10 Minutes

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Saturday, April 25, 2026 6:10 AM

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Why 'English kindergartens' remain popular in Korea despite rising costs and government crackdowns

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fairs/Why-English-kindergartens-remain-popular-in-Korea-despite-rising-costs-and-government-crackdowns/2566255

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Saturday, May 2, 2026 8:09 AM

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Is Portuguese Hard to Learn?

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Saturday, May 2, 2026 9:50 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Why 'English kindergartens' remain popular in Korea despite rising costs and government crackdowns

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-04-14/national/socialAf
fairs/Why-English-kindergartens-remain-popular-in-Korea-despite-rising-costs-and-government-crackdowns/2566255

Why would they crack down on this?

They are getting these kids reading more English by 6 years old than US Schools do by high school.

Good for the Koreans.

Americans are a bunch of illiterate apes. Especially anybody under 30 years old.

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Tuesday, May 5, 2026 1:22 PM

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Behavioral AI Says It Can Read Risk In Your Voice Without Bias. Here’s What To Consider

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daraabasiita/2026/04/27/behavioral-ai-say
s-it-can-read-risk-in-your-voice-without-bias-heres-what-to-consider/

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Tuesday, May 5, 2026 7:21 PM

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Mom’s Apple

Learn Korean with Jadoo

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Thursday, May 7, 2026 6:17 AM

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a lost language of the past, the Sound of the Phrygian language, Plato observed that some Phrygian words resembled Greek ones

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Thursday, May 7, 2026 6:55 AM

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The Korean Peninsula is Just a Massive Social Experiment

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Thursday, May 14, 2026 2:09 PM

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Why is the vowel in “caught” in General American English transcribed to /?/

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-in-caught-in-general-american-english-transcribed-to-%c9%94

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Friday, May 15, 2026 4:48 PM

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Why Japan Uses English Titles for Chinese Movies

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Monday, May 18, 2026 3:25 AM

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Odyssey 2026 film 'Cancerous Woke'

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Sunday, May 24, 2026 1:54 PM

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Mapped: America’s Most-Spoken Languages After English and Spanish
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-americas-most-spoken-languages
-after-english-and-spanish/

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Chinese is the top non-English, non-Spanish language in 13 states, including California, New York, and Georgia.
German still dominates parts of the Plains and Mountain West more than a century after peak German immigration.
Indigenous and immigrant languages alike remain regionally concentrated, from Navajo in the Southwest to Vietnamese across the South and Plains.

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Tuesday, June 2, 2026 10:49 AM

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Choctaw language: Common words and phrases you can quickly learn

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Sunday, June 7, 2026 6:36 AM

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The English translation project of the Buddhist Canon
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Wednesday, June 10, 2026 2:42 PM

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Simplify language learning with these AI tools

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Friday, June 12, 2026 9:23 AM

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maybe not to be taken serious, he's a bit of a trolling joker

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Saturday, June 13, 2026 6:39 PM

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Saturday, June 13, 2026 6:42 PM

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Modern Russian Slang, From The Streets | Easy Russian 87

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Saturday, June 13, 2026 6:43 PM

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Sunday, June 14, 2026 6:29 AM

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Monday, June 15, 2026 8:23 AM

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ONE sentence, THREE different Mandarin accents

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Tuesday, June 16, 2026 3:58 AM

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10 Best AI Language Learning Apps 2026 — Tested for Real Fluency
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