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[made_in_me]

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[emocalypse]

...huh.
I thought the e for 俄國 was fourth tone. THAT SAID, we use fa4 for 法國 innn generalllll here. l-lol taiwan vs mainland. I've also seen a lot of people use 俄羅斯 instead of 俄國 for Russia...especially in hetalia fandom |D

[made_in_me]

I copypasted all the pinyin from an internet dictionary which uses mainly simplified. LOL that said, I went back to listen to myself and I actually used the 4th tone when I was saying both 俄國 and 法國. My parents are from Taiwan, so I'm used to hearing it that way too, so I guess I ignored my pinyin list |D

As for Russia, yeah I saw 俄羅斯 in the online dictionary, but I've seriously never heard of it before! I only know what my parents say, so... But that's interesting :o I wanna check out Chinese fandom more, but my Chinese skills are too poor/I'm too lazy orz

[emocalypse]

THE TAIWAN FANDOM IS BRILLIANT I love it /o/
well, my exposure to it anyway. Which is cosplayers and the cons here. s-so much hetalia stuff |D

[made_in_me]

ahhh I saw this post and was ttly jealous :

[clericchronicle]

Translate what the symbols mean? :O

[made_in_me]

Most of them essentially don't mean anything because it's just words that are the sound equivalent. So uh, these are just literal word for word translations, it doesn't mean Chinese speakers associate America with beauty or Canadians with adding and grabbing and big things or anything like that |D

[armageddog]

Oo, thanks! I didn't know anything beyond America and China. It's nice imagery, if anything. From what very little I remember from my Mandarin class, our professor was like America is the Beautiful Country! China is the Middle Country! And Middle Country made me think of some far away fairy tale.

[made_in_me]

My mom tells me China = middle country because Chinese people are self-centered and hey, we ARE the center of the civilized world <- the attitude in ancient times lol