This is me but with China, since people just think of them as basically the same place.

Is this what racism feels like?

the death machine NEED MORE MONEY PLS MR PREZIDNT GIVE MONE

admittedly a rather gay drama but w/e (word of honor)

too little onion

Posting neat Chinese phrases whenever I feel like #1

抛砖引玉

(pāo zhuān yǐn yù)

Literally: “throw brick pull jade”

Figuratively: “this is just my dumb ass opinion but I’m putting it out here to start the discussion, in the hopes that someone will correct me be inspired to say something wise”

Everyone’s learning Mandarin lol. I’ve been on and off for a few years but should get back into it, 亡羊补牢！

I’ve tried to learn the Arabic alphabet a few times but I just can’t keep track of the dots. Are there other ways to group the letters that help learning?

1st tone ā - a high flat tone, like singing

2nd tone á - rising, from the middle to the top, like a question

3rd tone ǎ - low tone, as low as you can, it often becomes vocal fry. (also rises a bit at the end of sentences or in isolation)

4th tone à - falling, from the top to the bottom, sounds angry

there’s also a secret “neutral tone” that happens to the second syllable of many two-syllable words, or for grammatical particles. it changes tone height based on where the previous tone ended, so basically if the previous tone ends low, the neutral tone is high and vice versa. these syllables are also shorter in duration and some diphthongs are flattened.