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Fangyan Friday #9: Elegant Shaoxing
Even insults can sound refined in the dialect of this gentle Zhejiang city
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Fangyan Friday Special: Hong Kong English
The other language of this Special Administrative Region
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Fangyan Friday #8: Hong Kong Cantonese
English loanwords have changed this language of the Guangfu people and gangster films
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Fangyan Friday # 6: Wild Geese of Hengyang
Quirky adjectives and sayings from a city known for migratory birds
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Fangyan Friday #4: Pu-Xian Min
An endangered Fujianese dialect from the birthplace of Mazu, the goddess of mariners
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Fangyan Friday #3: The Rap of Sichuanese
TWOC’s guide to the dialect of Deng Xiaoping—and modern Chinese hip-hop
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Fangyan Friday #2: The Devil’s Wenzhouhua
Learn some key phrases from the notorious Zhejiang dialect known as the “devil’s language”
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Fangyan Friday #1: Wuhanese
Learn to speak like a native of Hubei’s capital with TWOC’s new regular column
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