>Russia's national college entrance exam will include Mandarin as an elective foreign language, according to a recent announcement by Sergey Kravtsov, deputy minister of education and science of the Russian Federation
All the best books will be written in Chinese soon. Are you preparing?
Chinese classics were great. Language sounds like utter catfight, though.
Japanese tongue sounds far better; if you disagree you're being a contrarian.
Colton Sanders
If you read ancient Chinese poems (those before the fall of Song) in Cantonese you get much better result simply because it actually shares a similar tonal system with ancient Chinese.
Anthony Rogers
Russians are just learning the tongue of their new overlords
Go, try to ask any students studying 文學 in Hong Kong.
Alexander Gutierrez
I have about 3 years high school experience with Mandarin and a few months of self-taught Japanese (got Hiragana and Katakana down)
Can anyone recommend options for learning both languages at the same time? I figure as long as it takes no worse than 2x as long, I’m still in the green.
Ayden Cruz
Wish I had the option to learn Mandarin at school
Chase Miller
>Japanese tongue sounds far better; if you disagree you're being a contrarian. it's just so melodic, pure phonetic. i stumbled by some 80s japanese funk or something by chance and im in love youtube.com/watch?v=ORyw6TGLBvk
Justin Lee
im only half serious, but chinese-subbed anime?
Dominic Lewis
Dubbed surely? Isn't Chinese subs basically the same as Japanese. Hanzi across languages is a bit confusing to me
Isaac Gomez
>best books Wait, Chinese will become white as well? I don't think so, buddy.
Jonathan Martin
The 80's are over, and only pessimism and economic crashes await us.
Andrew Rivera
>hong kong It is a city in the canton area and the majority speaks cantonese. Of course they will be giving unbiased opinion on this, right? Why don't you ask people in beijing, where the standard of the mandarin is based on, their opions then?
Owen Green
水浒传,西游记,三国演义,红楼梦,and 金瓶梅 are all written in Mandarin.
Juan Fisher
It's funny because Hong Kong actually writes in Standard Chinese which is based on Mandrin. Cantonese doesn't even have a proper written language ands it's only written in informal contexts
Anthony Myers
I live in a russian city on a border with China and have lots of them studying in my uni and by far they are the most digusting pigs I've ever seen in my life. Every time they cook in the shared kitchen in my uni's dormitory they leave a disgusting mess and never clean up. I've seen their rooms few times and it's always full of garbage, dirty plates, etc. etc. Their language is by far the most disgusting one(there are a lot of people from Japan and Korea here too) with all the horrible "sh" and "ch" sounds and they are ugly as fuck. Fuck China, fuck chinese. Compared to all the koreans I see on a daily basis they are just subhuman garbage that should be erased.