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Many Chinese language textbooks are intended mainly for people who study Chinese in formal classes and are based on assumptions that are appropriate primarily for such learners.

The words and phrases such textbooks introduce in early lessons are often those that help students function in a classroom setting. Such textbooks also assume that the learners’ need to learn to read and write Chinese is as pressing as their need to speak it, so they introduce oral and written skills at the same rate.

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      • AkiraSaito on 22/11/2020 - 23:48
        +1

        whoever says this non-sense should learn bone script language because that's the real ancient Chinese characters :)
        All languages are evolving and people are just trying to look smart when they say "oh I think the traditional way is much better blablabla" while typing modern English

    • becku on 22/11/2020 - 23:00
      +1

      Here is an radical idea: you can learn both

    • bogan on 23/11/2020 - 00:16

      Could have been a lot, lot worse, had the government followed through with their plans to romanize the characters.

    • phoenixpan on 23/11/2020 - 01:38

      There is your traditional Chinese supremacy. Just learn to respect each other.

  • Manny Calavera on 22/11/2020 - 22:38

    毛主席万岁万万岁！

    Manny Calavera on 22/11/2020 - 22:38 (Collapsed - Offtopic. Show)
  • canberrascooter on 22/11/2020 - 22:41

    我真的不明白这些鬼佬为什么要想学中文。

  • beanlanda on 22/11/2020 - 22:43
    +6

    Let’s all learn to say ‘we will export somewhere else’

    • AustriaBargain on 22/11/2020 - 23:42

      I don't export anything, sounds good to me. Do whatever I don't care.

  • minicat on 22/11/2020 - 22:46
    +3

    In 2030 or no later than 2035, China will be the most powerful country in terms of GDP. So learning some Chinese is helpful for our career in the future.

    • [Deactivated] on 22/11/2020 - 22:48

      It's already the biggest trade partner, many businessmen and real estate agents are learning Mandarin. Even the Apple store assistants in the City know basic Mandarin and Cantonese.

      • dufflover on 22/11/2020 - 23:02
        +2

        helpful for our career in the future

        Even the Apple store assistants in the City know basic Mandarin and Cantonese.

        Only if your career involves selling shit to Chinese people. And even then that may not matter.
        You think all the farmers and fishers selling all our produce away for top dollar speak mandarin?

        • AkiraSaito on 22/11/2020 - 23:51

          Only if your career is to play an ass-licker in Chinese TikTok

  • vchung916 on 22/11/2020 - 22:48
    +1

    Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said "No matter how many eyes they have, five or 10 or whatever, should anyone dare to undermine China's sovereignty, security and development interests, be careful not to get poked in the eye."

    Love the way Chinese talk.

    • [Deactivated] on 23/11/2020 - 00:50
      +1

      yeah, Chinese policy is ((profanity)) imo, what they are essentially saying its we can hit you however we like but if you hit us once we will nuke your entire country.

      • phoenixpan on 23/11/2020 - 01:43
        +4

        How on earth could you interpret it that way? It's a clear message for other countries to stop interfering with China's own business.

  • Gloomy on 22/11/2020 - 22:49

    Advance learning it is!

    • tidie on 22/11/2020 - 23:02

      source？

      • dufflover on 22/11/2020 - 23:03
        +6

        That's what Xi said?

        • RetroMetro on 22/11/2020 - 23:20
          +4

          [ CCP approves this comment ]

    • CalmLemons on 23/11/2020 - 02:01

      wtf

      is that like the spaghetti came from china story

  • JasperAnderson on 22/11/2020 - 22:58
    +2

    I am here for the Comments!

  • sgtdanny69148 on 22/11/2020 - 23:09

    One day the Australia Wikipedia page will say "National Language: Standard Chinese" instead of English…….

    • RetroMetro on 22/11/2020 - 23:20
      +3

      Lets hope that day never comes…I rather keep freedom than socialism :)

      • justwii on 22/11/2020 - 23:28

        You can still vote
        with your feet

      • Griffindinho on 22/11/2020 - 23:52
        +1

        China is hardly socialist. It’s a mixed market economy now.

        • RetroMetro on 22/11/2020 - 23:57
          +6

          Its really not. They are super aggressive we need to cut ties with them. Our trade with them is at its lowest point because of our Western differences. They put tariffs on some of our goods because we wanted to investigate the origins of covid in Wuhan. They are not a mixed economy they are a global bully

          • Griffindinho on 23/11/2020 - 00:17
            +3

            @RetroMetro: You really are deluded are you? Too much western media or sky news bias perhaps?

            China is indeed run by an authoritarian government which regulates its mixed market economy.

            • RetroMetro on 23/11/2020 - 00:48
              +2

              @Griffindinho: Sky News haha I don't watch that. You are the deluded one my friend. Authoritarian government is not the right word more like a dictator government. If you read up on the stuff China does like organ transplants, concentration camps and suppression of free speech than you are the deluded one in thinking they are just some mixed economy. Let me guess you are pro CCP thats why you are commenting this?

              You don't have to be right wing to figure out how bad the CCP is. All you need is a brain XD. Left wing, right wing or whatever wing will know, if they have a brain its not just people who watch sky news lol

              • Griffindinho on 23/11/2020 - 08:55

                @RetroMetro: Nope not pro CCP, just people who spout misinformation is what I dislike. Before trying to fix others, maybe try and fix our backyard first, hey?

                • RetroMetro on 23/11/2020 - 11:16

                  @Griffindinho: Well there was no misinformation i was spreading. You are starting to sound like twitter with their censoring of "misleading" information

                • RetroMetro on 23/11/2020 - 11:16

                  @Griffindinho: Well there was no misinformation i was spreading. You are starting to sound like twitter with their censoring of "misleading" information

            • [Deactivated] on 23/11/2020 - 00:55
              +1

              @Griffindinho: Freedom, who are you kidding.

              Try saying Winnie the Pooh in pubic and see where you will end up.

              (don't forget to send us a video I'd love to see some Bok Choy)

    • asrey1975 on 23/11/2020 - 00:36

      There was an American SciFi that predicted everyone would speak Chinese as either first or second language in the future. ..

    • [Deactivated] on 23/11/2020 - 00:53

      as I am sure you know, try saying Winnie the Pooh and see where you will end up.

  • CocaKoala on 22/11/2020 - 23:12
    -1

    How do I say "No bat soup for me, please"?

    CocaKoala on 22/11/2020 - 23:12 (Collapsed - Offtopic. Show)
    • AkiraSaito on 22/11/2020 - 23:53
      +6

      Same as pronouncing "Australia is a pet dog of US" in English

      • CocaKoala on 22/11/2020 - 23:56
        +3

        Same as pronouncing "Australia is a pet dog of US" in English

        Why, thanks mate. I'm told another pronunciation for that is "Gee, I wonder what are you doing in this pet dog of a nation?! I hear the land of weenie the poo is far superior".

        • AkiraSaito on 23/11/2020 - 00:04
          +2

          Because the land here is much cheaper and I feel super-rich here. To be honest it's too much pressure back in China now. All my friends are making millions of dollars in China, I am just trying to stay away from peer pressure. That's why I came to Australia. Life is SO MUCH EASIER here.

          • CocaKoala on 23/11/2020 - 00:09

            @AkiraSaito:

            Life is SO MUCH EASIER here

            When you don't get kidnapped by the government and murdered for your organs, gee, that's gotta be so much easier indeed. Enjoy your stay, mate. And I appreciate you not eating our dogs while being down here.

            • AkiraSaito on 23/11/2020 - 00:13
              +1

              @CocaKoala: Can't really argue with a Trumper supporter because they always come back with fake news. You really need to update your knowledge base, if you have any.

              • CocaKoala on 23/11/2020 - 00:24

                @AkiraSaito:

                Can't really argue with a Trumper supporter

                Yeah, right. Everyone who disagrees with the atrocities of China ought to be a "Trumper supporter". What a bright assumption to make.

                I've been quite vocal against Trump if anything. Here's a post even from today: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/9656327/redir

                they always come back with fake news

                You really need to update your knowledge base

                What arrant nonsense. People eat dogs in China, and that's not fake news. This has been public knowledge for decades. They celebrate a festival of torturing and eating dogs FFS, so take your fake news retort elsewhere. It looks like you're the one without a "knowledge-base".

                • Munki on 23/11/2020 - 01:17
                  +1

                  @CocaKoala: Your claim that "people eat dogs in China" is a rather broad stroke and has a sinister undertone. It suggests that all Chinese people eat dogs when in actual fact only a small percentage do.

                  • CocaKoala on 23/11/2020 - 01:23
                    -1

                    @Munki:

                    Your claim that "people eat dogs in China" is a rather broad stroke and has a sinister undertone. It suggests that all Chinese people eat dogs when in actual fact only a small percentage do.

                    It wasn't what I was insinuating at all, but I appreciate the fact that it some might interpret it that way.

                    • qiaoer on 23/11/2020 - 09:30

                      @CocaKoala: what you said is true, but you can also say humans eat dogs, also true. So literally you are a dog eater because you are a human.

                      You need to update your knowledge base indeed. Dogs are common food for Chinese Korean in north east of China which is 0.14% of Chinese population.

  • vchung916 on 22/11/2020 - 23:18
    +2

    習近平酷似小熊維尼

    • AkiraSaito on 22/11/2020 - 23:52
      +1

      蔡英文酷似川普洗脚婢

    • qiaoer on 23/11/2020 - 09:15

      习近平is also like包子，梁家河小学生博士。Such a dick.

  • RetroMetro on 22/11/2020 - 23:19
    +1

    Shout out to the CCP for this free bie :D

  • CocaKoala on 22/11/2020 - 23:20
    +1

    How do I say "Don't eat dogs, you savages"?

    CocaKoala on 22/11/2020 - 23:20 (Collapsed - Offtopic. Show)
    • AkiraSaito on 22/11/2020 - 23:51
      +7

      Same as pronouncing "stopping killing Afghanistan civilians" in English

      • RetroMetro on 23/11/2020 - 00:01
        +1

        Damn Chinese are doing that as well?

        • AkiraSaito on 23/11/2020 - 00:07
          +5

          OMG you don't know China started the war in Afghanistan and blame it on US and Australia in the media?

      • CocaKoala on 23/11/2020 - 00:01
        +1

        Thanks again mate, I'm told it could also be pronounced as "Stop killing the prisoners that you detained illegally to harvest their organs, stop exporting viruses (both physical and digital), stop enslaving people into forced labour, stop putting people in concentration camps, stop the state-sanctioned and shameless intellectual property theft, stop illegally creeping into neighbouring lands, stop running those absolutely disgusting and dangerous wet markets, stop slaying the Uyghurs and other minority groups, stop pushing your garbage propaganda as educational material, and so on"

        Gee, that's it's a complex language indeed mate.

        • Griffindinho on 23/11/2020 - 00:15

          America and Australia aren’t that clean either.

        • AkiraSaito on 23/11/2020 - 00:20

          Clearly, Santa Claus is real for you.
          So are the street posters from those Falun Gong practitioners. Do you know that they also claim that the world was created from a spinning wheel made by their religious God?
          At least I got my source of information from certified newsgroups, and they come with evidence and I am up-to-date

          • Jalk44 on 23/11/2020 - 00:24
            +1

            @AkiraSaito: You really make him mad, he typed a hundred sentences back.

            • AkiraSaito on 23/11/2020 - 00:25

              @Jalk44: He is just copy&paste from sky news youtube comments

          • CocaKoala on 23/11/2020 - 00:28

            @AkiraSaito:

            Clearly, Santa Claus is real for you.

            So many whackjob assumptions. I have no religion (OK, I did mark "Jedi" as my official religion).

            Do you know that they also claim that the world was created from a spinning wheel made by their religious God?

            No, I don't, but I also don't give two hoots about any religious groups, or any groups as long as they don't go around enslaving or killing people.

            At least I got my source of information from certified newsgroups, and they come with evidence and I am up-to-date

            Ah, yeah. The newsgroups "certified" by those lying grubs that's the CCP and their stooges.

            • AkiraSaito on 23/11/2020 - 00:32
              +1

              @CocaKoala: It's CCP who spread the fake news of the killing in Afghanistan! They must have done it!
              Damn it! I knew it! (profanity) evil CCP!

              • CocaKoala on 23/11/2020 - 00:34

                @AkiraSaito: You reckon CCP spreads fake news? Thanks for letting me know buddy.

                • AkiraSaito on 23/11/2020 - 00:36

                  @CocaKoala: Yes. I believe Australia has done no war crime, ever!
                  The killing in Afghanistan was actually done by CCP and they control all the news media to blame it on Australia!

                  • CocaKoala on 23/11/2020 - 00:43
                    +1

                    @AkiraSaito: You want to know the difference between us?

                    I'd like murders investigated and reforms appropriated on the perpetrators, no matter who has committed it (including the alleged war crimes committed by Australian solders in Afghanistan). The key here is "no matter who committed it".

                    But people like you like to defend the CCP, and immediately either shriek "fake newz" or "trump supporter" (this one is incredibly daft), or talk about something else entirely different (like Australia's war crimes) straight away, without addressing the issues being laid out in front of you.

                    So, yeah, I would like any war crimes to stop, if the allegations are true, and would admit there's enough smoke for our government to investigate the underlying issue. What would you like done about all those atrocities I've pointed out in numerous messages across this thread?

                    And FFS don't call me a Trump supporter, because it would actually upset the actual Trump supporters. One need not be a Trump supporter to point out that murdering people in order to profiteer from their organs is immoral.

                    • AkiraSaito on 23/11/2020 - 00:52

                      @CocaKoala: Man, what are you talking about?
                      I believe Australia has done no war crime it's all fake news by CPP, just like you believe CCP murdering people in order to profiteer from their organs.
                      We all have our own beliefs.
                      And we all believe that CCP is so evil
                      OMG I have leaked some many top secrets to you tonight. I must log off now otherwise CCP will send their assassins to kill me.

                    • AkiraSaito on 23/11/2020 - 00:54
                      -2

                      @CocaKoala: You sound like a trump supporter, you talk like a trump supporter, you are a trump supporter to me! Don't worry mate, it's not a bad things. You have 74 million brothers and sisters.

                      • CocaKoala on 23/11/2020 - 00:59

                        @AkiraSaito:

                        You sound like a trump supporter, you talk like a trump supporter, you are a trump supporter to me!

                        That's your answer to what I asked you?! Gee, way to dodge a question.

                        I have linked you to threads where I'm talking against Trump and arguing with Trump supporters, and you have somehow deducted that I am a Trump supporter. Your belief is just your personal illusion at this stage, and I could not help you with disillusioning you (I've evidently tried).

                        Even if I were a Trump supporter, which I am not, it does not right all the wrongs being committed by the CCP.

                    • Jalk44 on 23/11/2020 - 00:55

                      @CocaKoala:

                      or talk about something else entirely different (like Australia's war crimes) straight away

                      Ok, comment don't eat dogs under the book bargain.

                      • CocaKoala on 23/11/2020 - 01:01

                        @Jalk44:

                        Ok, comment don't eat dogs under the book bargain.

                        Right, it's not as if I've actively dodged around other other concerns brought forward, so that's not going to cut it.

                        • Jalk44 on 23/11/2020 - 01:09

                          @CocaKoala: Anyway, I agree with some of your views man. CCP did a lot of bad things, some things are not true, some things everybody can't deny.

                    • [Deactivated] on 23/11/2020 - 01:07
                      +1

                      @CocaKoala: Fuccckkk the CCP arse lickers, don't waste your time. All they do is trash talk and speak nonsense cause they have zero comeback. What a bunch of (profanity) imo.

                      Probably sitting in China, hired by the CCP, sipping their microwaved bat soup supporting CCP, just cause they can't face the fact that they are turds who can't accept who they are.

                      Besides they are uneducated peasants who can barely speak English properly.

                      • CocaKoala on 23/11/2020 - 01:14
                        +1

                        @[Deactivated]: Yeah mate, this appears to be a lost cause. There's a bloke down below who also seems to think that I'm a racist. I give up.

                      • qiaoer on 23/11/2020 - 09:42
                        +1

                        @[Deactivated]: You sound like (profanity) CCP and the (profanity) dictator Xi Jinping. Anyone who disagrees should be muted. They must be uneducated. At least they can speak and write English as a second language. Can you speak and write a second language as they do? Now look who is uneducated.

      • Scythic on 23/11/2020 - 00:41

        I found it's very strange that you compared human beings to dogs..

        • CocaKoala on 23/11/2020 - 00:48

          I found it's very strange that you compared human beings to dogs..

          Yeah, right.

          I've repeatedly talked about several atrocities committed to human beings in China, but you come and respond to the one message where I say that they torture, kill, and eat dogs and are actually claiming that I've "compared human beings to dogs"?!

          If I were to give you the benefit of doubt, I'd say that you didn't understand what I was saying, but feel free to elaborate.

          • Scythic on 23/11/2020 - 00:53

            @CocaKoala: I replied to AkiraSaito person above…

            • CocaKoala on 23/11/2020 - 00:54

              @Scythic:

              I replied to AkiraSaito person above…

              Ah, sorry about that then mate.

              • Scythic on 23/11/2020 - 00:59

                @CocaKoala: Nah, all good. I should have quoted it, but I was lazy. It's late here, I should sleep.

        • AkiraSaito on 23/11/2020 - 01:14
          +1

          yes very strange. dog's lives in China are far more important to those Afghanistan civilians.

          • Scythic on 23/11/2020 - 01:19

            @AkiraSaito: I guess that also means you're supporting human organ harvesting in China. Good to know

            • AkiraSaito on 23/11/2020 - 18:12

              @Scythic: You know in China, they harvest human organs and rank them by their quality. A brain like yours will be labelled as "malfunctioned" or "faulty"

          • Jalk44 on 23/11/2020 - 01:24
            +1

            @AkiraSaito: it is, see this video from 35:50

            https://youtu.be/-GPplTKCYpQ?t=2210

            btw: I'm not CCP supporter, Fuxk CCP.

  • Charlie Dont Surf on 22/11/2020 - 23:39

    Thanks, grabbed it.

    Wish there was a Shanghainese phrasebook equivalent.

    • Munki on 23/11/2020 - 01:18

      It's a dying language, my friend. Along with many other older languages than Mandarin…

  • Roasty1024 on 22/11/2020 - 23:41
    +11

    Taiwan #1!!!

    • Griffindinho on 22/11/2020 - 23:53
      -6

      😡 taiwan is china 🇨🇳

      • Lizard Spock on 22/11/2020 - 23:57
        +2

        Yeah, but China not #1, so Taiwan not China

      • RetroMetro on 22/11/2020 - 23:58

        Then why are they resisting them?

      • SEasternCry on 23/11/2020 - 00:00
        +3

        Actually, PRC gained independence from ROC first. PRC was in effect at least from 1949 and ROC from 1912. So Taiwan (ROC) is a country even if you wished really hard it wasn't.

        • Griffindinho on 23/11/2020 - 00:12
          -4

          I was being sarcastic. It’s what brainwashed CCP shills would say

        • Munki on 23/11/2020 - 01:19

          What does Jay Z's record label have to do with Taiwan?

  • shortgum on 23/11/2020 - 00:45
    +3

    Comments in this thread proves racist is very real in australia !

    • RetroMetro on 23/11/2020 - 00:53
      +7

      I don't know if you are dumb or joking. Chinese people are ok, its the CCP that's the problem which is the government not the people

      • [Deactivated] on 23/11/2020 - 01:14
        +6

        I don't mind the people, but if they spread their shitting propaganda about their lord and saviour Winnie the Pooh

    • CocaKoala on 23/11/2020 - 00:53

      Comments in this thread proves racist is very real in australia !

      I'm sorry you feel that way, and if any of my comments contributed to that. However, I must point out that I'm only against the atrocities committed by the CCP, and have nothing but respect for the Chinese people as such.

      You do have to note that we Aussies do not appease to political correctness like a lot of other western nations, and freely speak our mind. For example, if I believe that eating a dog is savagery, you'll hear me say it because it (profanity) is.

      • Munki on 23/11/2020 - 01:23
        +6

        I'm sorry you feel that way, and if any of my comments contributed to that. However, I must point out that I'm only against the atrocities committed by the CCP, and have nothing but respect for the Chinese people as such.

        Sorry, you're doing this by going around claiming "Chinese people eat dogs" profusely? Strange way of showing respect, mate.

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