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Mandarin is notoriously hard to learn, especially for Westerners who often get tripped up on Chinese intonation. It’s a real problem, since varying tones of a same-sounding word can actually have different meanings.

But if there’s anything close to a global lingua franca — and I mean among straight guys — it’s hot women. It turns out that one such siren, 26-year-old Japanese model Kaoru Kikuchi, has combined the world of language learning and soft porn to create a product that is weird, offensive, and wonderful — all at the same time.

I’m talking of course about SexyMandarin.com. Here’s how it works: Users pay a monthly fee to watch videos of girls frolicking in bed or doing other silly things. Footages of lingerie models speaking in Mandarin will be interspersed by sequences where an animated, pervy looking teacher will explain the phrases used. Think softcore lesbian porn with Mandarin lessons in place of non-existent plots.

http://sgentrepreneurs.com/2013/02/05/nsfw-sexymandarin-com-fuses-soft-porn-with-chinese-language-classes/

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Cantonese is much more difficult than Mandarin. At work so can not evaluate video. And Pooj's response is NOT Mandarin - it is Chinese (one of several writing schemes which apply to all dialects of Chinese).

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I used chinese simplified and according to my limited knowledge, mandarin is a dialect, not a written language...

 

1. Mandarin, written using short-form (Simplified Chinese) characters - Mainland China and Singapore

 

2. Mandarin, written using long-form (Traditional Chinese) characters - Taiwan

 

3. Cantonese, written using long-form characters - Hong Kong and overseas Chinese

 

Cantonese is much more difficult than Mandarin. At work so can not evaluate video. And Pooj's response is NOT Mandarin - it is Chinese (one of several writing schemes which apply to all dialects of Chinese).

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