also it took me almost 3-4 minutes to type that without translate so please acknowledge my progress

I cant read it but congratulations

>simplified

<:thenk:329322130804047872>

i can only see a chinese woman from the characters

@porco where are muh beauty characters

the simplified ones are easier to remember for me because that's what my teacher teaches me

the traditional ones I always have to check on Google translate

but yes simplified is babby's first alien language

😦

oh, I'm actually the opposite

I am trying to remember both sets but that's a lot of learning

given that you spend time in taiwan, I would lean towards trad but I might be biased

and I'm guessing people there often write simplified anyway because it's less effort?

no they don't, they totally stick 100% to traditional, to the point that my gf needs Google translate for simplified ones

But I'm going to chink school twice a week and the teacher is a Beijing qt

it will be almost impossible to find someone who professionally teaches you trad. characters in Zurich

does she teach you erhua <:thonk:288060975775612929>

please elaborate

>beijing

what is erhua?

two flowers?

yi diarrrrr

narrrrr

zharrrrr

ah yes

errrrrrrr

na er instead of na li

zhe er instead of zhe li

yi dia er instead of yi dian

pirate slang

>tfw no Beijing pirate gf

tfw no erhua gee eff to arrrrrr at you when you accidentally search for chairman on your oneplus

I just googled this on my xiaomi, how arrested will I be the next time I go to China?

nah the sensors dont understand english

although its estimated they have like 3 million employees watching the internet for people saying shit they dont like

Just found out chinese randomly has complex numerals

一 壹 1
二 貳 2
三 叁 3
四 肆 4
五 伍 5
六 陸 6
七 柒 7
八 捌 8
九 玖 9
十 拾 10

Why did they do this?

it's used for financials

But why?