chapotraphouse

If even .01% of the Americans joking about learning Chinese actually dip a toe into the language, culture, and (god forbid) history… mega self own from the us state

Whole lotta folks are gonna find out they have more in common with the FOREIGN ADVERSARY™'s citizens than with their own government

It would be so fucking funny if this backfired so spectacularly that it resulted in the total collapse of the "China bad" narrative in the US.

One of the first things I was served upon opening the app was a Frieran meme. China really pointed at me and said "weeb".

As the redditors pissed about this love to cite... It's the Streisand Effect.

I have a Chinese buddy who studied in America and now lives in Hong Kong. He tried to teach me how to pronounce stuff in Mandarin and oh my god its so hard.

I finally started getting my verification codes. Like, hours later. It's an improvement.

Oh i bet the chinese users are stoooookkkeeddd about a bunch of yanks polluting their space

Most Americans will just go to instagram/facebook/twitter unfortunately

The great Satan won this round I’m afraid. Still though, I’m really curious to see some metrics (if those are even available anywhere)

Found something a bit weird, on profiles it looks like it shows users’ “IP Address”? But also that’s not long enough to be an IP address, and it’s not even made up of numbers? Can someone who knows Chinese clarify what this is?

Making a top level comment cause lots of people in this thread just spreading blatant misinformation regarding the ability to learn languages as a child versus an adult. No investigation no right to speak.

https://www.nature.com/articles/1301553

Unique childhood plasticity has been demonstrated particularly in the areas of vision, audition, motor, and language abilities

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10149040

The ability to learn certain aspects of language, however, is limited after early childhood. This sensitive period for language learning makes it an important model system for the study of developmental plasticity in children.

Another clarifying example is when people who immigrate to a new country at different ages attempt to learn a second language. When the amount of experience with the new language is held constant, there is an advantage to being younger than 8 years old for acquiring the second language to proficiency.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2920538/

Test performance was linearly related to age of arrival up to puberty; after puberty, performance was low but highly variable and unrelated to age of arrival. This age effect was shown not to be an inadvertent result of differences in amount of experience with English, motivation, self-consciousness, or American identification. The effect also appeared on every grammatical structure tested, although the structures varied markedly in the degree to which they were well mastered by later learners. The results support the conclusion that a critical period for language acquisition extends its effects to second language acquisition.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/427544/

Synaptic density increased during infancy, reaching a maximum at age 1--2 years which was about 50% above the adult mean.

Mark my words, if the Supreme Court finds out about this, they're overturning the Tiktok ban immediately.

i can't help because the verification doesn't wori for me, but it's really cool to see

Is there a trick to creating an account? I get errors whichever means of verification I try.

I tried to make an account months ago to practice Chinese, but it didn't work because of the verification texts. Let me know if someone has strats to make it more likely to go thru.