Comments by "Twomix" (@twomix1822) on "The Pretty Chinese Teacher TikTok Propagandists Exposed" video.

I agree, learning Chinese is a good idea but in my opinion the best Chinese is to learn traditional Chinese from teachers in Taiwan. Once you learn traditional Mandarin, learning simplified Mandarin becomes a lot easier as there is a reduction of strokes instead of addition of strokes. The reduction of stroke was done to encourage literacy (learning Chinese writing can be a challenge). Personally I find the traditional form more eloquent and beautiful than the simplified version.
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The CCP basically took 2000 years of traditional Chinese culture and values and turned it into Marxist shit-mix with CCP characteristics.
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@lmao22683 I agree. Hokkien and Cantonese are the “true heritage language” of China. Mandarin is just a language imposed by the Manchu conquerers during the Qing Dynasty. Sadly Hokkien and Cantonese speakers are shrinking and would become an extinct language if nothing is done.
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@martinbudinsky8912 This is why I find CCP culture disgusting. It's not traditional Chinese culture. It's a pervert imported ideology of Marxism, Leninism and Maoism mixed together in crap and forced down the throat of the Chinese people.
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@NoCareBearsGiven according to historians most of China during the Han dynasty speaks Hokkien/Minnan. But to put it into context the Han dynasty China is a lot smaller than it is now and comprises the southern and central Chinese provinces.
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@NoCareBearsGiven according to researchers it was the “lingua franca” during the Han Dynasty, although just like Old English it’s a lot different from Modern English. The “Hokkien” language spoken at that time would probably be indecipherable to today’s Hokkien speakers.
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@jbob6545 Taiwan government has started a program to teach traditional Mandarin in US universities as replacement for the Confucius Institute.
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@NZvanlife Simplified already exist even before the Chinese civil war. It was invented in the early 1900-1920s as a way to encourage literacy as the traditional mandarine characters (often only used in official government documents) proved to be too difficult for the uneducated masses to learn. Back then only the Qing aristocracy can read and write. In 1920, China had a literally rate of only 5% (95% of the population couldn’t read or write). The Republic of China in the 1920s decided to encourage public literacy and they decided to use simplified to make it easier for the masses to get educated.
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