no rules, just words

[starandrea]

Now it's warm and raining?? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ We could just talk about weather every day; I love weather.

But if your weather is uninspiring, tell me about your languages ♥ If you're learning Chinese (or any other language) right now, is it your second language? Third? Fourth, tenth?*

*No rules for how much of a language you know, or what you can do with it, for it to "count." I'm just here for a good time.

(And also to find out how many Chinese sign languages there are, and if they have a word for "fingerspell" - I will google and then comment.

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[starandrea]

根据维基百科 (English wikipedia entry on Chinese Sign Language)，中国有一个国家手语，那个手语有两个方言：南部的和北部的。（我不知道这些方言有多少不同的。）

香港和台湾有自己的手语，比中国的不一样。

所有中国手语都有fingerspelling（手指拼写？）从拼音之前，但现在国家的手指字母表达拼音（根据John Pasden @ sinosplice）。

[sam_gardener]

现在我想学手指拼写。读以后,愿望学校都到处教手指拼写。

[starandrea]

完全同意。

。。。我刚才找一找根多消息关于中国的国家手指拼写和手语，看到这个视频：Learn CHINA Sign Language with Xiaorong!，对自己想着，“是不是美国手语？？”这么相似的！我希望可以找到更多视频，想要看着更多 :)

[sam_gardener]

可能已经 你会中文连通用手话？

[starandrea]

现在我想要找到更多中文手语的视屏，看看我能明白多少语言 🤟

[starandrea]

哦对了，我以前是一个英文-美国手语翻译者，这是为什么我对上个话题感兴趣 😄 我也会说一些法语，不过为了翻译工作，不够了。（我法语还是比我中文好，真麻烦，哈哈。我一定继续学习。）

[sam_gardener]

我也最爱谈谈天气。这里现在又有雾气。

我理论上知英语。
我大凡的亲和性给言辞是低的,即使用英文说话。
但阅读理解还好。
从我的工作在饭馆和农业我懂一点西班牙语词。（也长大在地方很多名字用西班牙语） 但是没学语法。
有时候(太常)听人声,会使我感觉不到滋味虽然无端。所以练习听力理解可很难。
觉得汉字是最好玩的。


[tinny]

I am so uninspired about writing in Chinese right now, but the languages thing made me think of an article I read - it was in my things learned in november post, but it fits here very well.

https://blog.justfont.com/2025/10/beyond-mandarin-a-latin-based-solution-for-taiwans-rich-lingusitic-landscape-en/

I didn't realize that Taiwan had indigenous languages. Oops victim of colonizing power narratives oops.