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At long last, I have assembled all of the extremely complex paperwork and Xi willing, will be submitting my immigration application soon.
Good luck! Immigration sounds complicated.
The Chinese created bureaucracy and it sure does show. It's not changing citizenship, not that I would want to be a PRC citizen anyway. But it is permanent residency, what Americans call a green card, even though they haven't been green for over a half century. Once in the Shanghai consulate while in line I watched a man come in and turn in his US green card. The State Department official was shocked. "You know how hard these are to get, right?" she said. He nodded, handed it over, and walked out without another word.
That always stuck in my head.
Lol insha'Xi
I don't think Arabic has a sound close to X in pinyin, otherwise I'd try to make a funny calligraphy of this
It's like She but instead of using the tongue TIP, you use the tongue BLADE.
Pinyin is dumb, Taiwan has another system called bopomofo that is much more accurate but uses alien symbols instead of Latin letters.
Bopomofo sounds pretty fake lol. If I Google this will you end up laughing at me???
I know how to pronounce mandarin lol, and Arabic too, but neither have the ability to write many of the sounds in the other, unfortunately. Chinese has so many retroflex, and Arabic none. But Arabic has a ton of pharyngealized sounds, and Chinese none. Could just write it like 'sh' of course.
Bwoh-pwoh-mwoh-fwoh is how all Taiwanese children are taught. It's like hiragana, a bunch of symbols. Pinyin uses Latin letters. It's hard to say which is worse. IPA can fuck all the way off.