I'm mexican and it will be his main (or only) culture. His dad abandoned us. My ex MIL and i got into an argument and we stopped talking about 2 months ago.

Also he is a baby. 6 months old today.

I don't know if I should try introducing him to chinese culture or to just keep the mexican side. If introducing the chinese side is also okay, then do you have any tips?

Ok, idk if this is super niche or not but hopefully you guys can help answer a question that has been plaguing me for 15 years. 😂 My ex's mother used to keep cracked egg shells under the sink. I asked him if he knew why and he was oblivious (to this and basically everything else around him) so he was no help. I thought, surely she was using them to compost but.... They never left the cabinet. Is there something she knows and a reason I should also keep cracked eggs? Is it good luck? Does it keep ants away? Mice away? I need to know 😂😂

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I am an artist, and I wanna learn how to do chinese ink paintings I find them beautiful, however I feel this could be seen as appropiation, I want to know if it is or if it can become it and how to avoid it.

Just watched the Creation of Gods sequel and I have the song that Ji Fa sings stuck in my head. I'm not fluent enough in Chinese to be able to search for it though. Does anyone have a link to it?

hello, i want to ask. which one is a better male chinese name between these two, and why?:

1. 韩睿昇 (Hán Ruì Shēng)
2. 韩承宇 (Hán Chéng Yǔ)

你好，我想问一下。这两个中哪一个是更好的男性中文名字，为什么？：

1. 韩睿昇
2. 韩承宇

It sounds like concubine music and I really like it. I want more!

Hello! Not sure if this is the right community but I hope it is :) As a 1995 Piggy I heard this might be a hard year for us. I already bought myself a little red bracelet so that I will always be wearing red, but is there anything else I can do to help mitigate any bad juju this year?

For the past year, I've been studying Mandarin Chinese and now i finally want to learn Cantonese. Given that both languages share similarities, i want to ask which point i should start from so I don't waste too much time on some aspects. Feel free to suggest some approaches and experiences. I am also considering watching YouTube videos on studying cantonese made for Mandarin speakers

Hello, im writing my bachelor's thesis about Chinese humour and translating it into polish language, but i have a problem with accessing many usefull books, which are avaliable only on CNKI. This website needs wechat account to login. Could someone please help me with qr code verification, so i get access to those books? Thank you in advance.

Hello everyone, I am doing a calligraphy project and was wondering how to correctly write my dad’s name, Jao, in Chinese.

Would it be either of these 饶 / 饒 ?

I need someone to help me on the message thing I made a friend on Rednote and now I can’t talk to them because it keeps giving me a message “you are not allowed to send messages to her/him due…”

My English name means "Pure" so after some searching I found some characters that convey a similar meaning, but as a non-native speaker I'm not sure if together they create a suitable Chinese name. If not then what else conveys a similar meaning?

I'm looking for a language-learning app that lets me have conversations in Chinese while showing me the transcript as I go.

Here's what I'm looking for:

• Lets me speak in Chinese

• Shows Chinese characters and Pinyin as I speak and as the app responds

• Keeps replies short

• Ends each response with a question

• Uses a physical headset button to signal it's their turn instead of guessing when I'm done talking

• Can handle hour-long conversations without losing context

• Uses standard pronunciation

• Responds in under 10 seconds

• Costs less than $1 per hour of conversation

• Works on iOS

OpenAI's Advanced Voice Mode is close but doesn't show Chinese characters and pinyin in real-time, has annoying silence detection instead of button controls, and is unreliable even with the $200/month plan.

The idea is to practice Chinese while seeing the transcript and picking up new vocab. It'd be so immersive, it'd feel like you're actually living in China. You can't complain.

Have you come across anything like this?

Hi all,

I got removed on r/China for no reason so please excuse the post here

I am a second gen Chinese (mainland) Canadian, I am fluent in speaking and listening but I want to reconnect by learning to read and write Chinese characters. This is obviously a lot easier given my listening/speaking proficiency, but a lot harder given I have been surrounded by English my whole life. I'm trying to pick up my Chinese writing and reading by starting with traditional but it's honestly been so darn difficult and I have to start from square 1 again.

I'm sure this sub gets this question all the time but would it be better for me to START with Traditional or Simplified? I already know a few hundred or so simplified but traditional has been soooooo challenging for me. As for my intent, I like old Taiwan/Hong Kong music (Teresa Teng, XiaoHuDui, Leslie Cheung, etc.) and want to better connect with that as well as travel someday (and maybe learn Japanese?), I know traditional would be preferable in my case but it's honestly so difficult so I wonder if it's better to just master simplified or keep trucking through with traditional? Does studying simplified eventually make it much easier to learn/master traditional?

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I was wondering of any of you zodiac enthusiasts could tell me what the year might entail for a water horse? I was told by a classmate its going to be a good year for me because its a wood snake and apparently its good for water animals? But if so, why?