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32: Fallen Leaves: The Chinese Languages (with Wu Mei-Shin, Ye Jingting, and Israel Lai)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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The Fallen Leaves of Taiwan

Taiwan is composed of four different Chinese dialects. Zhang and Chen are really two big groups in Taiwan, with different geography locations. But even we say all mixed together, we still love each other. Your pronunciation, like we say, egg is a nun in my city. In other cities, they say nui. So we just love it. And then like, you don't really know how to speak a properly. It's just different mentality.

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