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David Moser Full Episode – Why Chinese is So Damn Hard

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David Moser is a scholar of linguistics at Capital Normal University in Beijing and the author of A Billion Voices: China’s Search for a Common Language.

0:00 - Introduction

5:28 - The Challenge of Translating Gödel, Escher, Bach

21:14 - Cultural and Economic Changes in China in the 1980s

31:37 - Why Chinese is So Damn Hard

38:56 - The Core of Language is not the Writing System

44:04 - The Political Fiction of a Unified Chinese Language

54:20 - Can We Just Get Rid of the Chinese Characters?

1:02:27 - "Character Amnesia" and the Future of Language Input

1:07:25 - Comparing the Educational Systems of China vs. America

1:16:07 - How David Learned Mandarin

1:28:32 - Reflections

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David Moser is a scholar of linguistics at Capital Normal University in Beijing and the author of A Billion Voices: China’s Search for a Common Language.

0:00 - Introduction

5:28 - The Challenge of Translating Gödel, Escher, Bach

21:14 - Cultural and Economic Changes in China in the 1980s

31:37 - Why Chinese is So Damn Hard

38:56 - The Core of Language is not the Writing System

44:04 - The Political Fiction of a Unified Chinese Language

54:20 - Can We Just Get Rid of the Chinese Characters?

1:02:27 - "Character Amnesia" and the Future of Language Input

1:07:25 - Comparing the Educational Systems of China vs. America

1:16:07 - How David Learned Mandarin

1:28:32 - Reflections

  continue reading

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