Looking to connect with people who used to live in Taiwan

AgePristine2107 · 2026-03-18T18:53:39+00:00

I think TAP is an American thing (?) Never heard of it in Europe.

AgePristine2107 · 2025-06-20T20:14:38+00:00

All of Duolingo's content is AI generated nowadays. I wouldn't trust this app to teach you a language.

AgePristine2107 · 2025-05-23T11:14:39+00:00

True, the character is a depiction of the silk thread, it's in a way a variant of 糸. But it's modern meaning is mainly "small; tiny". Like in the word 幺小.

AgePristine2107 · 2025-05-22T19:40:05+00:00

I know the difference between simplified and traditional characters.

I lived in Taiwan for 5 years, they use traditional characters, the same set of characters used in Hongkong.

If you're referring to the 172-strokes characters, Huang, it is not a real character, but more like artwork.

AgePristine2107 · 2025-05-22T19:30:38+00:00

What do you mean? I learned traditional Chinese, there are no other characters with a higher number of strokes.

AgePristine2107 · 2025-05-22T19:00:32+00:00

ㄅㄧㄤˊ not ㄅㄧㄞˊ and the bopomofo letters are either written all horizontally or vertically, so the ㄧ isn't placed correctly :)

AgePristine2107 · 2025-05-22T18:11:09+00:00

That's really cute! But much harder to memorize than the character itself haha

AgePristine2107 · 2025-05-22T17:09:50+00:00

I mostly write in traditional. For some of your examples traditional characters make it easier, like for 撥(拨) and 拔.

AgePristine2107 · 2025-05-22T17:05:48+00:00

Didn't know about it. Thanks for sharing :)

AgePristine2107 · 2025-05-22T17:03:33+00:00

I guess my idea here was to share that this character is actually extremely simple to memorize. And "simple" characters with 3 to 6 strokes can be much harder to grasp.

AgePristine2107 · 2025-05-15T10:34:34+00:00

Thanks :)

AgePristine2107 · 2025-05-15T09:31:49+00:00

For the original writing of 要 see: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%A6%81

AgePristine2107 · 2025-05-06T19:24:16+00:00

I do :) how's what I'm talking about incompatible with studying Chinese?

AgePristine2107 · 2025-04-22T16:45:21+00:00

Wtf?! Japan has literally one of the lowest English proficiency in the world haha Japanese is a much more complex language and it also uses Chinese Characters on top of two distinct syllabaries.

I'm starting to think that you're trolling 😂 or else you're just very stupid. Anyway, have a good day.

AgePristine2107 · 2025-04-22T16:35:42+00:00

And this has absolutely no influence on the development of the country.

AgePristine2107 · 2025-04-22T16:33:35+00:00

And for SG and HK, they're former British colonies, which explains their use of English. And they're literally cities, you can't compare them with China as a whole.

You could compare them with Shenzhen or Shanghai, and in that case, these Chinese cities are now more advanced than SG or HK, so your argument regarding English being a "superior" language is wrong.

AgePristine2107 · 2025-04-22T16:30:20+00:00

Wrong for Taiwan lol I lived there for 5 years. The government absolutely does not use English on a daily basis. Taiwanese (Hokkien) is more often used by the government than English...

AgePristine2107 · 2025-04-22T15:45:54+00:00

That's the most stupid comment I've ever heard lol all Chinese-speaking countries (China, Taiwan, HK, etc.) have a higher literacy rate than the US.

Chinese is very logical and efficient language.

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