
China's Kingdom of Characters with Jing Tsu
Factually! with Adam Conover
The Chinese Language Has Persisted Despite the Demands in the Modern Language
There's a very old theory and philosophy of the origin of chinese writing in chinese. It tells the story of a four eyed sage who looked up and wached te patterns of the cloud formation, and looked down to see and observe the tracks left by birds walking on sand. And he realized that there's a pattern, there's an nto order in the universe. That's it was said when he started inventing characters. But lord, i hold it has, yes a. Some people say somer tin scientists say that the starred up cast is greater. You have to learn lik three or four thousand characters to be basely literate. Once you learned that, it seems
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