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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I speak Mandarin, that's like my first language I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cool, so there's definitely speakers around.

I wonder if there's a Taiwan instance..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hate to link this but uh can't find a better resource with quick Google

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChineseLanguage/wiki/faq

Essentially you'll want to decide to go with Simplified or Traditional mandarin, Pinyin vs Zhuyin. Taiwan and HK use Traditional, you'll learn through Zhuyin, while China/SG/MY (and many others) use Simplified, learnt through Pinyin. Ignore dialects eg. Cantonese, Hokkien all that for now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's totally fine to link a reddit post as a source. We can still use the info from there, just better not to engage.

Even better, repost all the info here so we don't have to give them traffic. I might find a language learning instance and do that.

InB4 "but that's stealing": Spez has already established that Reddit owns the content, not the users, so you're stealing from Reddit, not the OP.

Thanks! I will be focusing on Mandarin as used in mainland.