Who speaks Chinese?

randumb

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me

edit: mandarin purely, might want to post what dialect you need translated
 

OffTopic1

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Originally posted by: explrsport
I need a couple sentences translated....please PM me if you can, and thanks!
Speaking & reading is 2 different things.

My GF can speak Cantonese but can't read.
 

rh71

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I speak it, but I can't read or write it. That doesn't help you.
 

Pepsei

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there are two written forms, the traditional and the crappy commie way. :D

and many many different spoken forms.
 

dighn

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Originally posted by: Pepsei
there are two written forms, the traditional and the crappy commie way. :D

and many many different spoken forms.

the traditional form is ridiculous complex and needed trimming :p

but what he has is in pinyin
 

Pepsei

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Originally posted by: dighn
Originally posted by: Pepsei
there are two written forms, the traditional and the crappy commie way. :D

and many many different spoken forms.

the traditional form is ridiculous complex and needed trimming :p

but what he has is in pinyin

yeah it is "hella" difficult to write to... and growing up learning the traditional way makes it a pain to read the simple way, while the people who learn the simple characters can easily read the complicate form, how ironic.