Fans of Chinese and Mandarin
This is a misunderstanding. 圣母 in Chinese internet slang means “A person with the purest virtues and highest sense of honor, a paragon of mankind”, …
When Nissan introduced the Bluebird model in Malaysia, the Chinese name picked for advertisement in Chinese language press was 蓝鸟, which literally means Bluebird. However, …
Just like English or it’s presuccessor, the Latin language system, uses prefix to indentify a word. 肉 means meat and in ancient symbolic characters, it …
TL;DR From an anglophone POV, Traditional Chinese is indeed a backward language! [Pages 16 {right} – 17 {left} of the Chinese version of Holes, by Louis …
In the past Chinese has been written on rolls of bamboo sticks which made it easier to write the characters vertically and from left to …
I don’t know about “inferior”, but I would expect that it is harder. When I lived in Hong Kong a lot of my ethnic Chinese …
Although the first Chinese character in this term, 番, could mean foreign, the term in the question, 番菜馆, referred to restaurants which served Western food. …
Thank you for the request. That’s because Chinese grammar is objectively easier than Korean or Japanese grammar. Now, don’t get me wrong, for an English …
It’s not offensive, but it’s horribly incorrect. It’s like saying people from France and Albania both speak “European”. I mean, there are a group of …
Why don’t Americans read Shakespeare in contemporary English, or Chaucer in contemporary English? That’s not the way Shakespeare of Chaucer sound. If you have studied …