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YoshidaYui

(45,221 posts) Sat Feb 21, 2026, 03:57 PM 3 hrs ago

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In China. How many languages do you speak? (Original Post) YoshidaYui 3 hrs ago OP

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1. Serious question: Is "Chinese" a "language" and Mandarin, Catonese, etc.

Sat Feb 21, 2026, 04:38 PM

2 hrs ago

considered dialects of the Chinese language?

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2. Too many people in the U.S.A. know very little about the rest of the world.

Sat Feb 21, 2026, 06:58 PM

18 min ago

This is very troubling as the rest of the world passes us by.

Trump, of course, is making everything worse.