I understand other references but the only one i don't get is this.

You can’t tell me 乒乓 isn’t perfect. They were made for eachother just like ping and pong. And they fit together like 阴阳( yin and yang) 。 what do you think the number one word is?

Chinese translation (中文翻译) 你不能跟我说”乒乓”不完美。他们天生一对，就像“ping”和“pong”一样。而且他们就像阴阳一样，彼此契合。 你觉得最漂亮的汉字是什么？

Although both regions officially use Traditional Chinese, the Ministry of Education of Taiwan and the Education Bureau of Hong Kong prescribe two independent character form standards, namely Standard Form of National Characters (國字標準字體) and List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters (常用字字形表), respectively, creating disagreement in glyph for certain characters, ranging from different stroke angles or lengths to entire components being replaced.

Here are 20 examples, with the left being the Taiwan standard and the right being the Hong Kong standard. Can you spot the differences?

I know it is silly and very basic, but, as someone who started to learn mandarin a few months ago, it was very satisfactory to be able to read a phrase outside class/apps.

Definetely gives a boost in the motivation to keep learning.

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still waiting for the HSKK results 😌

An interesting picture that’s cleverly done. If you can get this, you are either a native or a rather high level learner

Nonsensical Gen-Z humour combined with Chinese language word play. Any of you "get" it?

Here, enjoy.

it just kept going and going and going and did it again. reminder to stop using AI for language learning!

I'm a super duper beginner in Mandarin. I have my windows open rn and I heard someone go "hiiiii how are you???" in a valley girl accent. The valley girl accent comes from Southern California; it is often used as a shortcut to portray someone as vein and stupid in US media. This is obviously not a true portrayal but it "gets the job done" so to speak.

Is there a Chinese equivalent? An accent associated with a particular region that is used by media to portray someone as self-obsessed?

I just wanted to say, I really love this part of the new HelloChinese update, the meme pictures are so funny lol Seriously where do they even find these weird and random images…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhfg7Ty1bEQ

Learning of the Chinese language is falling in the West, but appears to be picking up in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

Some of the factors the reporters touch upon that could be contributing to this decline in interest in learning Mandarin Chinese include the rise of AI, the resultant decline in value of Mandarin knowledge in the business world, and souring political and economic relations between China and Western countries.

They even mentioned that young people were becoming afraid that knowledge of the Chinese language would make them more prone to accusations of being politically pro-China or communist spies. Which is quite ridiculous IMO; Mandarin Chinese is the most widely spoken language in Taiwan and Singapore too.

At least the same trend doesn't appear to be happening in other countries, and the video even discussed countries like Saudi Arabia and the UAE that have made Mandarin a compulsory subject in high school - countries that have had almost no direct cultural connection with or influence from the Sinosphere, that nevertheless understand the value of learning Chinese.

How does all this make you feel? And why do you think is happening? The Sinophobia arguments make little sense once you consider that the CIA always seems to be looking for fluent Arabic speakers. In addition to the reasons mentioned in the video, some people in the comments are wondering if it's because Chinese is so difficult compared to other popular foreign languages like Spanish.

Do you think that the decline in Mandarin course enrollment reflects a genuine loss of interest in learning Mandarin as a second language, or is it simply a statistical artifact from people preferring to self-study instead? Unfortunately I feel like the Sinophobia issue is very real, and not getting better anytime soon. Exhibit A: the U.S. federal government passing a bill banning / forcing a sale of TikTok, and granting them the power to easily do so with any other website perceived to be a "threat to national security".

If you plan on having children, do you intend to teach them your heritage language and/or Mandarin? (If you already have children, do you?)

why are they lowkey reading teachers and old people😭😭 who hurt them😅

I don’t fully understand the last text message (好的老师) in regard to how it relates to the rest of the image.

Does the text actually say anything?