‘It destroyed my childhood fantasy’: Dairy lovers react to Chinese people trying cheese for the first time

Chinese food (or at least a watered-down, fusion-led version of it) is one of the most popular cuisines in the world, and China itself is famously host to all kinds of culinary delicacies. However, it has one big oversight that the Western mind cannot comprehend: it doesn’t really have any cheese. While it may sound …
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Niche Internet Microcelebrity Spotlight: Chinese Teacher Molly

Screen Name: molly_chineseteacher Real Name: Molly Internet Occupation: Language teacher Reason for Fame: Mandarin Chinese has been ranked as one of the hardest languages to learn for native English speakers. With over 100,000 characters compared to the Latin alphabet’s 26 letters, it is probably going takes more than a 14 day streak on Duolingo to …
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Language Memes For People Yelling At Their Duolingo App

Learning languages is hard, especially if you’re not getting the whole immersion experience. I feel your pain for those of us who have spent hours in a classroom trying desperately to understand what the teacher is saying in French or Spanish. Some lucky people have caught the language-learning bug, whether it be through traveling, Duolingo, …
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Language Memes For Linguists Yelling At Their Duolingo App

Learning languages is hard, especially if you’re not getting the whole immersion experience. I feel your pain for those of us who have spent hours in a classroom trying desperately to understand what the teacher is saying in French or Spanish. Some lucky people have caught the language-learning bug, whether it be through traveling, Duolingo, …
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Best Chinese Spy Balloon Memes for the American Military to Shoot Down With a Missile Next

A few days ago, a strange, bulbous, weather balloon was spotted over the big skies of Montana. Since weather balloons aren’t entirely an uncommon sight to see, most people ignored the covert appearance of the balloon and considered it harmless. However, tensions rose and worries spiked when people, and the American military, realized that the …
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Rabbit Memes For The Year of the Rabbit

We’re a couple of days into 2023, and I sincerely hope you all are having a fantastic new year thus far. While 2023 keeps keeping on, we still have another new year to look forward to: the Chinese New Year! On January 22nd, 2023, the year of the rabbit will begin, and I couldn’t be …
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Wacky Chinese McDonald’s Menu Translations Amuse Twitter

Translation is an art form. All different languages and cultures have varied ways of expressing themselves, and capturing that while making the text make sense is no mean feat. While online translation tools have come on from leaps and bounds since the days when young millennials used to try and cheat on their Spanish homework …
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Language Memes For Linguists Screaming At Their Duolingo App

Learning languages is hard, especially if you’re not getting the whole immersion experience. I feel your pain for those of us who have spent hours in a classroom trying desperately to understand what the teacher is saying in French or Spanish. Some lucky people have caught the language-learning bug, whether it be through traveling, Duolingo, …
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Delicious Crab Rangoon Memes That Celebrate the King of Takeout Appetizers

Chinese food is the best kind of takeout there is, and I’m not listening to any arguments against this. It’s got everything you could possibly want when you feel like treating yourself: complex flavors, grease, and a truly top tier selection of carbs. On top of that, it is unparalleled when it comes to the …
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Weird Duolingo Sentences To Stimulate Your Broca’s Area

Language acquisition is not known to be quickly accomplishable or straightforward. Most of us spend four years in a high school classroom fruitlessly trying to learn French, Spanish, or German, to completely forget everything we’ve learned in the weeks after graduating. I even took three semesters of Russian language courses in college, which may or …
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