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

Learn Chinese Insights Podcast Episode 017: Wesley Insights

Insights from non native Chinese speakers on how they learned Mandarin and what they are doing with it now.

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