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Asian Group

YoshidaYui

(44,303 posts) Sun Apr 13, 2025, 12:56 AM Apr 2025

How China Convinced Everyone to Speak ONE Language

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How China Convinced Everyone to Speak ONE Language (Original Post) YoshidaYui Apr 2025 OP

My eyes glazed over a bit, but still interesting... I remember hearing about... electric_blue68 Apr 2025 #1

electric_blue68

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1. My eyes glazed over a bit, but still interesting... I remember hearing about...

Reply to YoshidaYui (Original post)

Sun Apr 13, 2025, 01:26 AM

Apr 2025

....some simplification of Chinese characters back in the '70's.

As for having a close Chinese-American friend in my particularly teens through late 20s or so visiting her parents house I'd hear the Cantonese tones between her, and her mom.

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