zzuukkaa:

appingo:

goldentiger—eyes:

youkofujima:

Not sure if people have translated this, but.

Since this image has traditional Chinese, I figured I’d translate it.  

“General Iroh:

See you again when victory is obtained.

Your loyal son,

Lu Ten.”

So it’s actually a letter from Lu Ten to Iroh.  The grammar is very simple, almost like a telegram, so you can take it as “I’ll see you again when I obtain victory.”  A lot of people think that “xai gien,” the last two characters of the second line means “goodbye,” but it literally just means “see you again,” and in this context it does not mean farewell.  

Thanks for late night tearbending, Youko. 

bawwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

(Source: youkoofthelovespot, via gaobibaituo)

love explosions: I was talking on the phone in Mandarin and the person on the other line paused and asked me if I was from Beijing. →

ofunicorndust:

ACHIEVEMENT.

I can die knowing that I am able to fool someone into thinking I was speaking Standard Mandarin.

Honestly, I have the heaviest Malay influenced Cantonese accent when I speak Mandarin.

The only time in my life when I actually felt competent in speaking Mandarin was when I was…

Reblog for language triumph / discussion. Were you saying your 兒s? One of the main things I remember from my half-semester of Chinese is that our teachers were Beijing-ers and made sure everyone used 兒; my friend with the Cantonese-speaking family complained about how ugly the Beijing accent was, but our friend from the North (Changchun?) insisted that was the superior way to speak. 

(No one’s ever thought I was a native Japanese speaker, but I don’t speak Japanese on the phone too much and for face-to-face communication, well… #whitepeopleproblems BUT I DREAM OF ONE DAY MASTERING KANSAIBEN.) 

verjinyuh:

thedailywhat:

FYI of the Day: Chinese for Douchebags.

[reddit.]

i hope i’m extremely ugly

:)

Gorillaz + Journey to the West + the Beijing Opera + Zombies??? 

Yeah, it’s about what you’d expect. 

someday… I’ll learn Chinese and read these.