nah I'm a China-boo so of course I study the zhongwen
Aaron Ramirez
Anyone know why Chinese-Americans are so bad at Chinese?
Like, even most second generation ABC seem to be unable to speak, never mind read Chinese beyond literal Chinese 101 basics.
Ryan James
Because of american """education"""
Jeremiah Smith
From my understanding, some only understand it but speak back to their parents in English. There's the whole assimilation idea and some ABCs and their parents want them to focus only on English. When I lived in NYC though I came across a good amount of ABCs who immigrated to the US in the childhood or teenage years so of course they spoke Chinese natively, and even among 2nd generation ABCs many had an interest in Chinese language/culture and were attending Chinese classes with me in order to be able to speak Mandarin.
Additionally, many ABCs come from families that only speak dialects/Cantonese and not Mandarin.
Jack Nguyen
;_;
Christian Lee
>came across a good amount of ABCs who immigrated to the US actually that should read "chinese americans" but you get the point
Kevin Turner
不要哭,瑞典也是挺好的国家。
我也爱你们。( •̀ ω •́ )
Leo Adams
That still doesn't make any sense.
I went to public school. My Japanese is perfect. I just had to go to Saturday 日本語学校. I know Chinese schools exist too, so I know that's not the issue.
I guess the dialect thing makes some more sense. I'm guessing there are more Mandarin schools and maybe some cantonese, but not much for smaller dialects. Learning from just parents is much more likely to speak just baby-chinese.
Also >NYC Man, Flushing is basically China. I'm not surprised. Everyone there would automatically assume I'm Chinese and speak to me in Chinese whenever I'd go there. A Chinese person could probably live there without ever speaking English.
Nolan Walker
shay shay 你真的是中国人?
Nathan Scott
So even asians can't tell each other apart. I fucking knew it.
Julian Ward
嗯嗯 嗯~ o(* ̄▽ ̄*)o
Leo Ross
>I just had to go to Saturday 日本語学校. I know Chinese schools exist too, so I know that's not the issue.
Many Chinese-Americans do go to Chinese schools as well but from what I've hear many just see it as a waste of time and have no interest in it.
It's like how in the US in high schools people study Spanish for 2 or 3 years but because most students don't have an interest in it, they come out of high school being unable to hold a basic Spanish conversation.
Logan Phillips
>因为我是
别 use Google Translate.
Luke Johnson
为什么不喜欢韩国人?她们很漂亮,他们的历史很有意思。
Oliver Watson
哇~ 为什么中国人通常不用Sup Forums
Joseph Wright
》为什么中国人通常不用Sup Forums
我也有这个问题。
Joseph Long
>double meme arrows 很棒的!
Also, how do you say maymay in Chinese?
Jonathan Lee
妹妹 maybe?
David Howard
In addition, which website to visit to consume chinese maymays?
I know three characters out of the ones you have posted.
What are you saying?
Hunter Harris
第三个, third one 是, is “月”, "month" 吗, "eh"
Third one is month, eh?
Ryder Rogers
日 sun 月 moon this user wonder what's your intention
Kevin Baker
It's supposed to be "日",but judging by the reactions,I fucked it up.
Julian Baker
Help me understand my GF's Chinese conversation
Cameron Flores
They bottom isn't supposed to protude. At least that's how I write it.
Noah Long
Taiwan, do you know it?
Lucas Ramirez
Honestly,my handwriting is absolute trash. This is how I would write "moon"
Hudson Hughes
It is better than mine. lol.
Ian Cruz
there are calligraphy instructions on strokes
if you do the strokes in order they should look better
Jeremiah Phillips
I did them in order.
Nathan Howard
chinks believe "开窍", an enlightenment or epiphany of some kind i unironically hold the opinion that an un开窍ed human being wll not be able to do chinese calligraphy well practice make perfect tho
Samuel Bennett
stupid chink
Easton Turner
>practice makes perfect Why do you think I wrote at least a line of each character?
Landon Adams
boxes then lines when we were learning in school we had special boxes to practice the characters on so they are stable and structurally sound
Jonathan Nguyen
>user,what is your goal for 2017? >I want to learn a new language >which one? >half of the groups starts saying that it must be Russian >awkwardly say "mandarin" >teacher looks at me like if I just said some really,really dumb thing >half of the group is like "mandarin is a fruit lol" >"Did I say something impossible?" >"No user,bht I have to ask,why not Japanese?" Fucking people I swear.
Gabriel Reyes
Well, why?
Juan Phillips
I was never really that much inerested in Japan. Most of my books about asia are about china/by chinese authors. I only have four books written by Japanese.
And maybe because I don't want to associate with the animeheads that I have seen irl.
Jordan Hall
they were shocked by your alacrity
Jason Adams
This shouldn't be allowed.
Wyatt Ortiz
Ye
Robert Taylor
Why this thread has so many Japanese?
Matthew Richardson
Shitty english translations
Similar to how North and South Dakota is translated into Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese/Chinese
Ryan Davis
Chinese studying in Japan + sinoboo who is also a weeb
Him (spoiler)or maybe her(/spoiler) and I are the anons who've done these threads the last two years.
Nathaniel Murphy
There is literally nothing wrong with being cheerful If I jumped into this thing without optimism,I would have given up a long time ago.
Wyatt Phillips
it's different tones technically shan1 and shan3
Daniel Allen
I approve my fellow foreign-language-learning user
Zachary Perry
Why is romanised Chinese so shit. like I get the accents and stuff but
>Zhang >Pronounced Jung
Fucking spell it like "Jung" then
Luis Hughes
One of the provinces should be renamed to avoid this abomination
Isaiah Hall
It's another case of the characters look different but look the same. Like how you have 20 different ways of writing fucking Yang or Míng. It's all the same in latin but looks different in hanzi.
Joseph Russell
usually in chinese the city is said right after the province
shaanxi hanzhong or shanxi yuncheng, or just the city so it's okay