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China's Kingdom of Characters with Jing Tsu

Factually! with Adam Conover

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What's the Difference Between Cantonese and Mandarine?

Chinese was astually the regional lingua franca for japan, korea and even via nan. The viandemes borrowed chinese characters to sound out their own language. So that's been so cantanes mander and the other dialects all use the writing system. That's how they communicate it.

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