1.3 The Story of Chinese

Talking Language

English - October 01, 2018 04:00 - 26 minutes - 50.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
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In this week's episode, Robert and Rachel discuss the Chinese language.

We talk about the tones, the difference between Mandarin and Cantonese; how Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are related; how a national identity was born from a written language, and its incredible and illustrious history.

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