漸 / 渐

jiàn

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Definition:

Gradually, gradual, by degrees

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Example sentence:

天氣漸冷

天气渐冷

tiān qì jiàn lěng

The weather is getting cold

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Source: Pleco

whenever i go to a boba place and they’re speaking mandarin behind the counter there’s a part of me that thinks i could do it, i could be the white boy who SHOCKS staff by ordering in FLUENT CHINESE. but first of all why would i do that. whom does that help. and second of all i don’t know how to say 70% in mandarin which means i would need to get full-sweetness milk tea and i’m not strong enough for that

One of my biggest red flags is that I'm learning French, also trying to study for two very important tests, and thinking it would be really easy to learn Mandarin...

Someone, please stop me

I am realizing with devasting clarity the amnesia barriers that I have with others via language lesson

so @/hermes devotees

how are we doing with all our abandoned language lessons

this is a small petty thing but every time i hear a White Person mispronounce someone's chinese name a part of my soul dies and i feel a new gray hair pop up

i get it, it's a foreign language and it can be tricky to get your mouth to make those sounds but please for the love of god if you're going to repeatedly bring up the name of a chinese author/youtuber in your vid after you already bagged on a different author for mispronouncing scottish gaelic words you could at least make a goddamn effort

in order to not be part of the problem here's a quick pinyin crash course on the ones i see ppl fuck up most

"xi" in pinyin is pronounced kind of like "shi"

"qi" is pronounced like "chi"

if you see a c like "cai" that's actually pronounced with an s sound so it sounds sort of like "sai"

you can find guides on youtube that go over all the sounds

i'm not even asking you to worry about the tones right now just please use the right sounds it matters

Them with animal companions

[Mandarin->English] @xinwendiaocha 6:43 PM March 29th 2023 Tweet

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 3月29日，在蔡英文总统下榻的纽约酒店外，有超过 200 名中国抗议者进行示威

On March 29th, outside of the hotel that President Tsai Ing-wen is staying at in New York, over 200 Chinese protestors held a demonstration

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Please correct me if I made a mistake.

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I decided to learn some mandarin (I think idk it says Chinese) and Japanese and it’s so weird hearing words and immediately recognising them but have zero clue how to write or translate them

Mandarin SRMTHFG is so funny to me like he’s just a pathetic little monkey.

he got fired from the Hyperforce imagine being so insufferable you get fired from the job you were literally CREATED for thats hilarious, actually.

[Mandarin->English] @byvoid September 29th 2016 Instagram Post - Color Coded Translation

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阿巴拉契亞山脈東部邊緣的哈里斯堡，賓夕法尼亞首府 #哈里斯堡 #賓夕法尼亞 #阿巴拉契亞

阿巴拉契亚山脉东部边缘的哈里斯堡，宾夕法尼亚首府 #哈里斯堡 #宾夕法尼亚 #阿巴拉契亚

ā bā lā qì yà shān mài dōng bù biān yuán de hā lǐ sī bǎo，bīn xī fǎ ní yà shǒu fǔ #hā lǐ sī bǎo #bīn xī fā ní yà #ā bā lā qì yà

(On) the eastern fringes of the Appalachian mountain range is Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s capital #Harrisburg #Pennsylvania #Appalachia

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Please correct me if I made a mistake.

why is the thing i miss most about my 2 week trip the sleeping in different places part. why.

if i dont learn cantonese soon im gonna kms

Malaysian mandarin is like: ni long wo zuo somok

OTD in Music History: Cesar Cui (1835 - 1913) is born in what was then the Russian Empire (now Lithuania) into a Roman Catholic family of French and Polish–Lithuanian descent. (The original French spelling of his family surname had been "Queuille".) An engineer and an academic military fortifications expert by training and profession -- he eventually attained the academic rank of "professor" in 1880, and the military rank of "general" in 1906 -- Cui is remembered today as a member of "The Five" or "The Mighty Handful," a historically important group of self-taught Russian Nationalist composers who studied and worked (and sometimes even lived) together from ~1856 - 1870. Other members of that group included Mily Balakirev (1837 - 1910), Alexander Borodin (1833 – 1887), Modest Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881), and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908). Frequently disparaged as the least musically gifted member of “The Five” (admittedly very little of his music is still heard today), Cui was unquestionably the most influential member of the group when it came to propagandizing their philosophy via the more dubious art of music criticism. As a prolific writer and polemicist on musical matters, between 1864 and 1918 he contributed almost 800 articles to various newspapers and other publications throughout Russia and Europe. This wide and frequently scathing coverage included reviewing concerts, recitals, musical life, new publications of music, and even prominent personalities. PICTURED: An 1895 autograph musical quotation written out by and signed by Cui to a fan, taken from his 1894 operatic comedy, "Le flibustier" ("The Pirate"). Although Cui was particularly proud of this work, it no longer holds the stage today.