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

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Saturday, February 28, 2004 4:39 AM

Just saw this on CNN...

"Expert: New 'must learn' language likely to be Mandarin"

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/02/27/future.language.ap/index.ht
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Weird... Joss's accidental choice of Mandarin over Cantonese may actually work out in reality...

"Just remember... all success is illusion: what has really been accomplished is the displacement of an area of specific failure to somewhere else... or is it the other way around?"

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Saturday, February 28, 2004 5:32 AM

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Originally posted by Micronaut:
Weird... Joss's accidental choice of Mandarin over Cantonese may actually work out in reality...



And we Firefly fans already have a leg up...

We can cuss a blue streak in Mandarin!

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Saturday, February 28, 2004 5:46 AM

That is total gôu pì... Firefly fans would never curse in Mandarin... Dong ma?

"Just remember... all success is illusion: what has really been accomplished is the displacement of an area of specific failure to somewhere else... or is it the other way around?"

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Sunday, February 29, 2004 9:09 AM

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Originally posted by Micronaut:
That is total gôu pì... Firefly fans would never curse in Mandarin... Dong ma?



Uh huh... well that's FAY-FAY duh PEE-yen!

On a related topic... I've been told by a friend, who travels in China, that Chinese people actually like to curse in English!

And that's no tzão gáo.

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Friday, June 21, 2024 2:50 AM

20 years later...

I wonder how many people working at CNN know how to speak Mandarin.

My guess is zero.

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Tuesday, June 25, 2024 7:11 AM

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20 years later...

I wonder how many people working at CNN know how to speak Mandarin.

My guess is zero.




Probably 2 or maybe 1 anyone with the Liu, Wong, Lehei or 'Wang' type name, you will have AI that will get a lot of people fired.

its not an escape language for a Westerner to learn, far removed from Latin, Germanic, Indo-European languages, it has lots and lots of news sounds, bending tones, a alphabet picto Logogram indicative Pictograph morphemes symbol ideogram 'letters' with thousands upon thousands of characters

possibly one of the more difficult languages to learn

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Tuesday, June 25, 2024 7:15 AM

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Songs in English are often dumb and the grammar poor, I can't see how it improves your English so why would it truly work in French?

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Tuesday, June 25, 2024 9:10 AM

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
20 years later...

I wonder how many people working at CNN know how to speak Mandarin.

My guess is zero.




Probably 2 or maybe 1 anyone with the Liu, Wong, Lehei or 'Wang' type name, you will have AI that will get a lot of people fired.



Well right... If we're going to cheat.

You know what I mean. Not a one damn virtue-signalling Whitey or diversity hire working at CNN over the last 20 years ever learned Chinese.

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its not an escape language for a Westerner to learn, far removed from Latin, Germanic, Indo-European languages, it has lots and lots of news sounds, bending tones, a alphabet picto Logogram indicative Pictograph morphemes symbol ideogram 'letters' with thousands upon thousands of characters

possibly one of the more difficult languages to learn



Yeah. Those characters are wild. Same with Japanese and Kanji. I honestly don't even understand how they can communicate over the internet via keyboard unless they learned another language to do it or made their own hybrid language expressly for typing.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Yeah. Those characters are wild. Same with Japanese and Kanji. I honestly don't even understand how they can communicate over the internet via keyboard unless they learned another language to do it or made their own hybrid language expressly for typing.



They have a word recognition spell checker and can input using Romanji (English Latin script letters) or Hiragana or Katakana or everyone can send a happy face or sad face, the somewhat universally recognized meme smiley face symbols

the program recognized the phonetic sound and then shifts the word into a Chinese 'Kanji' character



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out of Chinese, Arabic, Japanese and Korea they say Korean is the easiest of the difficult language to learn but far removed from English and little in common to help English speakers

Some will claim Vietnamese is either Hard or Easier Than You Think, some rank Vietnamese as hardish or medium next to Turkish, Polish, Thai, Greek.

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Tuesday, July 9, 2024 4:57 AM

Man... I can't even learn Spanish. There's no way I'd ever learn an Asian language.

I've done some stuff like Rosetta Stone and Babel before. I'd say that for my mind the Babel would have had a much better chance of working for me if I stuck with it.

I know enough to say greetings, introduce myself and ask for somebody's name. I could string together a few sentences like asking where the bathroom is. Unless things really change, I don't see a real need to know much more than that unless I wanted to get into some sort of management position where it would be an asset to be fluent in both.

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Monday, August 12, 2024 1:17 AM

February 7th, 2004: Joss was right... Mandarin is the language of the future...

August 11th, 2024: Nobody knows how to speak Chinese in America except for Chinese immigrants.


I think that may have been a little over-hyped.

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Saturday, August 24, 2024 5:37 PM

Trump said its not an easy langauge and he's correct I believe he has a grand daughter learning Mandarin, maybe Trump’s Granddaughter is even learning to write it, Japanese can be difficult but Chinese is more difficult again.



maybe some 60 IQ idiot can learn basic phrases but to be good at it would take a lot of intelligence and time



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In Latin and Ancient Greek, there are two patterns seen when the form of a name suggests the wrong gender for the person it refers to.

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THG
Tuesday, August 27, 2024 8:09 AM

China is going under, falling apart. English is, and will remain, the global language.

T

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Yeah that's what many Empire thought, better and superior, their culture and language and religion was higher, the Ancient Egyptian was the best with its Pharoh ruler, art and monuments and war feats, the Sanskrit a Sacred Language of the Hindu of India, the Greek Empire, the Hebrew and Israeli stories, the Romans and Latin, the French...so many others

English is gone almost, Orwellian now in Britbongistan very low IQ these days riots across multiple cities, the USA isn't much better, it is all in decline

maybe another Empire and Culture rises for a time

but after that we are in the era of Cyborgs and AI who will talk and signal in mili-seconds in their own way, perhaps own planets before humans colonize, that is unless we already destory ourselves by Nuclear War or Superbug Virus

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THG
Friday, August 30, 2024 11:04 PM

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China is going under, falling apart. English is, and will remain, the global language.

T






China is falling apart right in front of your eyes JAYNEZTOWN, and still you are blind to it. That is all anybody needs to know about you.

T

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China is falling apart



Like a zombie Apocalypse?

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THG
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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Quote:

Originally posted by THG:

China is falling apart



Like a zombie Apocalypse?




Research has shown a relationship between trolling others online and dark personality traits such as sadism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism



Better you than me nut head.

T

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Research has shown a relationship between trolling others online and dark personality traits such as sadism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism






You talking about yourself Tranny? you're the idiot driving the thread off topic

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Top 15 YouTube Channels for Korean Learners

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Saturday, July 19, 2025 8:37 AM

MANDARIN & SHANGHAINESE

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Sunday, July 27, 2025 4:49 PM

Fantastic Features We Don't Have In The English Language

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Monday, September 8, 2025 3:41 PM

Mastering Vietnamese: A Deep Dive into Language, Culture, and Dialects


Learn Languages

Vietnamese language conversation


Loan and Lian speaking Hue Vietnamese

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Monday, September 8, 2025 3:43 PM

AI Chatbots for Foreign Languages

https://blogs.dickinson.edu/academic-technology/2025/08/11/ai-chatbots
-for-foreign-languages
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Tuesday, September 9, 2025 6:08 AM

StoryLearning Podcast

https://storylearning.com/podcast

19 Best Foreign Language Study Podcasts

https://www.premiumschools.org/top-podcasts-for-learning-foreign-langu
ages
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THG
Wednesday, September 10, 2025 12:33 AM

No, he wasn't

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THG
Wednesday, September 10, 2025 7:54 AM




I should have suggested he hasn't been proven wrong yet.

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Tuesday, September 23, 2025 7:40 PM

Sing like you mean it! - the Linguistics of Tonal Languages

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Tuesday, September 23, 2025 7:43 PM

The Slavic Languages and What Makes Them a FAMILY

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Saturday, September 27, 2025 3:01 PM

The illusion is coming to its end?...at least the Chinese remember the Opium Wars

what language do these junkie zombies speak?

This Has To Be The Creepiest Fentanyl Zombie Video Out Of Philadelphia
https://vidmax.com/video/235295-this-has-to-be-the-creepiest-fentanyl-
zombie-video-out-of-philadelphia

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Friday, November 28, 2025 5:14 PM

Russian is the language of North Korea

North Korea makes Russian mandatory in schools
https://www.politico.eu/article/north-korea-russia-mandatory-school-mg
imo
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Saturday, December 27, 2025 3:58 AM

this drama seems dumb, timetravel and ancient culture with pop music and guns and girls dressed up talking romance, the background and costume looks great but it seems CGI at times maybe AI enhanced

there is no music when they pluck strings? was it removed

I think almost everyone in the East was watching it because a series of short min clips of the show were putting together on tiktok and started trending






42.4K subscribers wtf

CubeTV - Drama Shorts

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Sunday, January 4, 2026 7:51 PM

variety of Chinese in China, Teochew dialects

The Sound of the Modern Teochew language

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Wednesday, January 7, 2026 4:28 PM

Japanese language quirks - Kyota Ko Video Compilation

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Tuesday, February 3, 2026 8:15 PM

History of the Austroasiatic languages (Timeline)

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Tuesday, February 3, 2026 8:17 PM

KRA DAI: THAI & LAO LANGUAGES

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Tuesday, February 3, 2026 8:19 PM

Suriname's Shockingly Huge Variety Of Languages

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Thursday, February 5, 2026 5:37 PM

for an English speaker its difficult but easier than Chinese, Japanaese or Arabic


Duolingo reports Korean ranks sixth most studied language worldwide
https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-it/2025/12/04/3TPASK3OVVAB5IYSX4AB6RIMHM/

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Saturday, February 7, 2026 5:32 PM

The Modern History of Estonia: Every Month (1918-2022)

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Saturday, February 7, 2026 5:35 PM

The Secret Language of Hungarian Folk Art

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Saturday, February 7, 2026 5:35 PM

Introduction to Finnish Grammar

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Saturday, February 7, 2026 5:37 PM


Why Some Chinese Words Don't Follow Common Sense

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Tuesday, February 10, 2026 6:56 PM

actually kinda impressive

some people claimed that he was a fake 'Polyglot'

an Italy u-tube guy who focuses on things on languages, video games, medieval weapons, history books and armor. He studied in England and majored in Japanese so his Japanese is also supposed to be pretty good

It seems he cant speak Cantonese at all, but Cantonese is not easy, like Arabic the Cantonese language is supposed to be one of the most difficult languages even worse than Mandarin Chinese...his pronunciation in Japanese sounded kinda bad but then again he says everything in an Italian accent

from what I hear his Japanese is also impressive

Reading Comments In Chinese (Characters) - Can the Metatron Do it?



He speaks French, shared a house with Chinese so maybe got his Asian language to a higher level by this shared house method
its actually quiet easy for for an Italian to learn French comapred to Japanese, a French text will be a Romance language descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.

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Wednesday, February 11, 2026 3:58 PM

Every Major Writing Script,
Explained


Truth2explain

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Wednesday, February 11, 2026 7:49 PM

China’s Real Language Map (It’s Not Just Mandarin and Cantonese)

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Thursday, February 12, 2026 5:45 AM

Japanese can more or less make a good guess at Mandarin Chinese writing or Cantonese Chinese with them having similar history with Buddhists using the same Chinese logogram pictograph logographic picture character concept idea of Chinese historical character.

How to write Kanji with similar shapes


Japanese Calligrapher Takumi

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Sunday, February 15, 2026 4:39 PM


Latin’s Evolution: What Romance Languages Reveal



What Makes the Romance Languages Unique


(Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, and more!)

Why was Italy so Ineffective in WWII? | Animated History

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Sunday, February 15, 2026 4:43 PM

and Now AI teaches you how to read and write, Text-to-Speech for the Robot Software Chatbot's version of Natural Text-to-Voice Conversion

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Sunday, February 15, 2026 4:49 PM

The World’s 5 Most Commonly Used Writing Systems
https://www.britannica.com/list/the-worlds-5-most-commonly-used-writin
g-systems

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Sunday, February 15, 2026 10:38 PM

AI is going to stop real quick soon if the Corps don't start their own electric grid off of ours and pay for their own electricity bills.

Everybody is getting killed on their electric bills now because of them and because of the EV car experiment failure.

We ain't paying for it anymore. Figure it out before you all go out of business.

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Be Nice. Don't be a dick.

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Monday, February 16, 2026 12:47 AM

They will probably use AI to figure out some almost extinct dialect language in some far away Indian Hindu village

Scripts Used in India


Ancient to Modern Writing Systems

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Monday, February 16, 2026 12:48 AM

Why Does India Have Many Writing Scripts

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Monday, February 16, 2026 12:49 AM

What if English used Chinese Characters?

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Wednesday, February 18, 2026 7:11 PM

How Russian differs from other Slavic languages
https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/267449050/how-russian-differs-from
-other-slavic-languages

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Wednesday, February 18, 2026 7:12 PM

Proto-Slavic



History of the Slavic Languages

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Friday, February 20, 2026 1:39 AM

Easy Korean 2 - Summer

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Friday, February 20, 2026 1:42 AM

Getting to know people in the streets German

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Friday, February 20, 2026 1:43 AM

94 Simple Questions, Russian

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Friday, February 20, 2026 1:44 AM

Can Japanese Speak In Pure Japanese?

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Friday, February 20, 2026 1:45 AM

What Are People Doing for Christmas in France?

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Friday, February 20, 2026 1:46 AM

Easy Cantonese 3 - What do you like about Hong Kong?

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