3:09pm PDT - July 30th, 2021

Mandarin is a fruit, not Chinese speech. 13 Century Portuguese ignorant of Chinese tongue met Ming Dynasty mandarins, who spoke Chinese, told it as Mandarin for self reference. So, Mandarin was stand-in for vacuous speech, 0 words. Mandarin therefore is null, nothing to learn.

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