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

Jul 18, 2021

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Episode notes

Introduction

4min

How to Be a Better Speaker

3min

The Speech Synthesis: A Computerized Voice That Reads What You Type

3min

The Evolution of Guinea Pig Language

5min

The Future of Language

4min

The Pro-Manderan Language Movement

3min

The Changes in Mandarin

3min

Hedwig and Israel Lai on Rhapsody in Lingo

3min

The Importance of Language Learning

4min

10.

Mythbuster: A Podcast About Language Prescriptivism

6min

11.

How to Pronounce a Cantonese Name

3min

12.

Cantonese and the Threat of Endangering It

2min

13.

The Endangered Status of Mean Language in Taiwan

2min

14.

The Ins and Outs of Chinese Dialects

3min

15.

The Differences Between Modern and Middle Chinese

5min

16.

The Differences Between Mandarin and Shanghai-Ness

5min

17.

The Different Types of Loanwords in Taiwan

2min

18.

The Fallen Leaves of Taiwan

3min

19.

The Fallen Leaves Model

3min

20.

The Drawbacks of the Metaphor for Swedish and Mandarin

5min

21.

How to Read Text in Taiwanese

2min

22.

Cantonese: A Different Writing System

3min

23.

The History of Chinese Characters

6min

24.

The Backlog of Work

2min

25.

The Three Chinese Words of the Week

3min

26.

The Rise of Red Tourism in China

4min

27.

The Importance of Spaces in the Conversation About Latin

3min

28.

The Importance of Spaces in Chinese Reading

6min

What we call sometimes Chinese is really a gigantic family of languages. They’re somewhat divided in mutual intelligibility, and somewhat united in their writing system. How are they different, and how are they maintaining themselves? Two Chinese researchers, Wu Mei-Shin and Ye Jingting, join us.

And what’s going on in the Cantonese lingopod world? We’re joined by Israel Lai of Rhapsody in Lingo.