Dio9syshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkZ-MLtAsyc
Imagine you are about to come out to your parents so you take them to a nice restaurant, only for the restaurant to get flashmobbed by xiaomanyc singing about flowers
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my headcanon is that xiaoma is some kind of cryptid that Chinese people tell each other about before they visit new york. "Careful, depending on where you go you might get your MIND BLOWN by a white guy who speaks FLUENT Mandarin"
abadidea@Dio9sys I have definitely accidentally blown the socks off an 阿姨 by knowing how to pronounce 谢谢你 properly while comically white, their expectations are rock bottom
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My main goal is to read computer blog posts and buy computer parts in Mandarin, but having someone act like I just shot lightning out of my hands because I successfully ordered a meal is an admittedly powerful secondary goal
My main goal is to read computer blog posts and buy computer parts in Mandarin, but having someone act like I just shot lightning out of my hands because I successfully ordered a meal is an admittedly powerful secondary goal
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actuallyI had a taxi driver act like I was Superman because I could have a brief conversation in Mandarin. It was heartening.