#mandarin — Public Fediverse posts

Mandarin is Taiwan’s main language today, but it was not widely spoken before the mid-20th century.

In 2020, 66.3% of residents used Mandarin as their primary language. After 1945, and especially after 1949, the KMT promoted Guóyǔ (國語) through schools, government, and media.

Taiwanese Mandarin also differs slightly from Mandarin in China, including vocabulary and the use of traditional Chinese characters.

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@LoneLocust
I learned a lot of #Mandarin from all that talking. 🤔
#華語

There's a concept in wuxia: real mastery isn't found in the crowd shouting at the city well — it's found on the mountain, in quiet, unglamorous practice.

I've been building a mythology around that idea for my Substack — including 叱石成羊 ("shout at the stones, turn them into sheep"), a four-character idiom born from a Daoist tale I adapted recently: [黄初平 → [https://mappingmandarin.substack.com/p/huang-chuping-the-stone-sheep-of]

My newest piece expands that world: a parable about an academy that promises easy mastery and quietly fails its own students.

"The Academy of All Tones Under Heaven" →
[https://mappingmandarin.substack.com/p/the-academy-of-all-tones-under-heaven]

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