my 3rd grader came home with this today from school, excited to show me how he’d written his name in Chinese. I had to gently explain to him that this is, uh… extremely Not Correct

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  • Society_Liver [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 years ago

    I remember feeling so proud when I realized that 吗 and 妈 both had a 马 in them and I finally figured something out about the language that wasn’t just rote memorization.