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How to Be a Competent Mandarin Speaker

The biggest obstacle for Taiwanese Hokkien is the pronunciation. They have a really crazy tone soundy thing going on in Hokkien. For a given sentence, there's like one, one syllable that is pronounced with the correct, correct in quotes and everything else changes. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. I don't feel competent enough to speak about it in depth, but yeah, it's, it's,. it's hard. It has nasal vowels. We have those in Polish. And then you like, okay, English imagine English is your first native language. You're like, well, there's no case. Whoa, there'slike no gender on words.

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