In this episode, we welcome back Wesley (from our last episode) to share some of the more fascinating aspects of the Chinese language including:

- How abbreviations work in Chinese (and how they differ from English)

- Why Chinese can't be the next global language

- Why understanding Chinese culture is so important to understanding Chinese

- The actual meaning of "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon"

- How chengyus are formed, used and developed

- Sarcasm in Chinese culture and how it's used

- How he learns and uses chengyus, and how this differs from how native speakers learn them

- Why accents in Chinese don't matter

- Why Chinese TV has Chinese subtitles

- How the writing system of dialects like Taiwanese has evolved

- The multiple ways that dialects can be subtitled

- "False friends" in Chinese

- How colors in Chinese are used differently than they are in English

- Why language learning is a series of plateaus with no distinct peak