Mandarin with a German accent

Language Log 2019-05-08

Summary:

Christian Lindner opened his speech in Chinese at the 70th Federal Party Congress of the FDP: None of the native speakers of Chinese to whom I showed this could understand any of it, not one word (so they said).  I understood the middle part (from 在 to 要) upon first hearing. Here's what Lindner said: […]

Link:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=42675

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Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

05/08/2019, 11:50

Date published:

05/08/2019, 09:20