>>10929 it's hard to wrap my head around the fact that a swedish woman was taken as a slave to dzungar xinjiang, where she'd met a dutch cartographer who'd suffered the same capture during the great northern war

>>10327 Is anybody here learning Chinese I wonder what came first, the script or the sounds I like the character 了 because it's unique to me and a bit efficient desu also, let me drop a few resources for you boys https://www.hanyutales.com/ a website for chinese stories https://hanzicraft.com/ draw chinese characters and get da word https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zhongwen/ extension to view the definition of each character https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-vocabulary/ HSK vocabulary if you're interested in mugging it all up https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Main_Page a great wiki for chinese grammar https://www.hackingchinese.com/ very useful website on learning chinese https://www.chinese-forums.com/ a forum which i like for its emphasis on chinese culture good luck hikarins

>>11198 https://taiwancenter.taiwan-world.net/material/basic here is a taiwanese government website with resources! they have a lot of workbooks if anyone wants to learn I might start reading Du Fu's and Li Bai's poems, a native told me to give them a try, they're very famous in China's education system https://ctext.org/ a website for free chinese textbooks

yongle civilopedia https://www.civilopedia.net/rise-and-fall/civilizations/leader_yongle

>>11672 Hikarin, have you been playing Civilization VII? Do you know if there are any good mods for Civilization VI? I wonder if it's received updates I learned about the Chaoshan region of China, it had been the origin of a lot of derivatives of it's culture, as it had been home to a lot of migration overseas. It had a lot of impact on Singaporeans, along with Indonesian Chinese, who were often the majority landowners, strangely often. Quite a few people there speak a variety of Mandarin that is the closest to ancient Chinese, and they're often referred to as the Teochew people. They also have a coming of age ceremony. Interesting people. https://www.omniglot.com/chinese/ A useful page for people trying to learning languages, a lot of documentation I'd recommend the movies, „An Elephant Standing Still” and „To Live” on https://kisskh.ws/ which I found a lot of East Asian shows in Also try out https://lightnovelpub.org/ for quite a few webnovels, albeit in English, Qidian would be better for Chinese https://www.konglongmandarin.com/ Another interesting website I came across to learn Mandarin from Peppa Pig

>>11687 KURISU

>>11687 Merry Christmas, El Psy Kongoroo

>>11687 Merry Kurisumasu!!!!!!!!!!

Merry Christmas hikarians ^_^

>>11633 Merry Christmas!!! Merry Christmas for y'all, hikarins!!

>>11659 CHRISTMAS IS TOMORROW HIKARINS HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVE!!!

Merry Christmas!

>>11684 MERRY CHRISTMAS HIKARIN

Merry Christmas.

>>11662 our very own hikarinette

>>11667 I SHOULD KEEP POSTING ON HIKARI I WILL GET HIKARIN GF ONE DAY

I uploaded it onto YouTube if you wanna hear it again after it gets taken off the site:

>>11682 Jesus would be a Hikarin

>>11545 I like that the OP for the thread is extremely lewd Remi for absolutely no reason whatsoever

>>11591 Ginger Tea, bless. Just a few slices of lemon and maybe 2 thin slices of ginger with skin on (wash it), and just boil it. You can add honey, avoid processed sugar like the hikarin above said. Ginger is really good.

>>11591 Try different strengths and prepariations. I think most people add hot water to the bag then add milk, but sometimes it can be nice to steep the tea in milk for a while before adding the hot water (though don't tell anyone, they hate to hear this). If you really want to use tea to it's fullest, cook with it. Anything that requires hot water to cook will absorb tea flavours. I mostly use it in vegetable stews and soups, but it works well with freezedried noodles too (savory varieties). I even tried it in a wet stirfry once, was great. It's a strange ingredient that I can't actually identify in the taste of foods, but still notice how the dish is better for it. It must layer a base flavour, or maybe it's a caffine hit?

Im from the south so Sweet Tea is amazing. Arnold Palmer is even better

>>11629 I drink too much coffee, and i need stop with this, so i trying to like tea, seems more wholesome. >>11635 Ginger tea? i never heard about it, how can i prepare it? can i drink every morning or at night? >>11638 I never tried with milk, maybe could be nice. Like can i try it with chamomile tea? or Chai Rooibos? im really interested 'bout Chai rooibos (btw im glateful for you guys who are helping me with that, THXX, hikarins <<33)

>>11656 >I drink too much coffee, and i need stop with this, so i trying to like tea, seems more wholesome. Tea has less caffeine than coffee normally so this makes sense. I usually drink green or white tea with milk and honey. I am by no means a connoisseur.

>>11640 I'll gift you a big kiss on the cheek Hikarin

>>11640 I'm getting my neighbors chocolates. My relatives tell me I'm stupid for doing that though.

>>11643 I think that is cute. Don't let them suppress your jolly.

>>11622 Santa does exist sweet hikarin, don't let them tell you otherwise. Who else gives you presents and eats your cookies? Checkmate gaytheists.

>>11624 You're a nazi.

>>11626

>>11617 SANTA EXISTS! I BELIEVE IN SANTA

>>11610 And in a week I'm going face fuck teto to fucking death for christmas!!!

>>11008 Fatty all the way >>11162 If her tits are obscuring her tummy you can always make her chubby to get the best of both worlds, you can have the cake and eat it (but it's best to give the cake to your favorite girl so that she gets even more chubby

fat chest ftw

large breast are an R strategy is generaly a waste of energy the point of which is to attract mating partner at the expense of wasting energy and resource that could be better used elsewhere. flat chest is a conservation of energy for women seeking partner for more long term relationship so they conserve the energy for the offspring instead of a pointless ornamental stack of fat

>>11182 But you see, if a woman has a large, thick, juicy, chest, she will attract men such as myself with more success than a flat-chested woman. Also, remember that fat *stores* energy, so the woman with fat breasts will be able to store more energy for our offspring (and more milkies for me).

>>11182 >>11187 Hikarins where did you get so smart

>>11541 "This is good stuff anon please send more"

>>11542 "Great job, I have more assignments for you to sign up for."

>>11527 He actually rated the accidental submission

>>11527 He graded it higher for the trap. You must continue sending him it to pass.

>>11583 You must deny it if he ever catches on too

>>11489 Everything before that was a blur. The last time I remembered was when I met Kyubey.

>>11468 Just balls?

>>11517 i thought it was impossible, but it really happened.

>>11518 Proof?

>>11597 It's real Hikarin, it happened to me too.