Lots of folks have said Covid policies will change after the party Congress.
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But Poems written during the Tang dynasty rhyme according to the dialect around Chang'an and Luoyang. Even after more than a thousand years, the dialects in Luoyang and Xi'an (Chang'an) are still far closer to the Tang dynasty pronunciation. Modern Cantonese is never that close.Well, Tang poems (唐诗) sound better in Cantonese
So I couldn't imagine how the Tang poems sound better in a dialect that isn't even close enough to rhyme. I do realize that this kind of saying comes out only recently, say past 10 years. That makes me wonder if it is newly invented myth.
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There are officially published rhyme books from Ming dynasty which was based on Song dynasties. The northern Song is in Kaifeng neighbouring Luoyang, the southern Song moved to Hangzhou (Zhejiang) south of Yangtze river. So all their phonology are from around Luoyang. To this day, people in Hangzhou city, Nanjing city can 90% understand people from Luoyang, Xi'an and Beijing in the north. While it is unintelligible between these regions and Canton. So you can imagine what dialect represent the Tang era more accurately today.
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Wow Scholz looks like an absolute midget next to the Chinese female ceremonial guards. How tall are the female guards? They're chosen for above average height right? They look about 5ft 10 in to me. It's rare to see German leaders so short.
He is a real Miniman with 1.69m
Huge loss for human civilization
I tried Hello Chinese once and it nearly killed my phone with how resource intensive it was. Maybe they'll have optimized it by now.
I see. My native language is spanish, which means we don't really have any sounds that resemble chinese at all which makes things complicated.
I've tried to use a browser extension called Toucan to try to learn more advanced words and context. It will randomly translate words from any website you are visiting into the language you want to learn and when you hover the mouse over the word, it will show you the original meaning and a bit of context.
The only downside is that whenever you hover over a word, it will automatically assume you are actually learning. So, at one point, it will increase the amout of translated text in a website to the point it becomes more an excercise in mouse hovering.
Red Scare 101: You are guilty before proven innocent and even if you are innocent we gonna assume you are guilty anyway just to make an example out of you. Ah do not expect any compensation from the goverment for your expenses.
I can bet money that he was teaching regular pilots to flight Cessnas.
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Slightly offtopic but Cantonese is probably closer to Ancient Chinese because of rhyming.
Sounding smooth does not make a language better necessarily. Cantonese has more intonations than Mandarin, and that makes Cantonese less confusing than Mandarin. When you have many characters of the same pronunciation you get mixed up their meanings.
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