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Trending: Apparently, the 17-year-old self-taught Chinese-speaking TikTok sensation featured by Punch is speaking gibberish. Many professional translators do not recognize her variety of Chinese, as it isn’t Mandarin, Cantonese, Wu, Xiang, or other recognized Chinese languages. Interestingly, the TikToker allegedly organizes paid Chinese classes on TikTok. She once counted... show more

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Temi2 months ago

she said

13122 months ago

You see that last comment there, na dem be the problem for this country. “At least she learned something” what did she learn? Useless Nigerians supporting nonsense

Uncle Faris ☯️2 months ago

You see this person, she’s a bastard and she’s an embodiment of the very thing that’s wrong with this country.

Moronfolu Adeyemi2 months ago

So basically her Chinese is ‘made in china’

Abraham2 months ago

This story reminds of that South African fake interpreter. The guy was the official sign language interpreter for the presidency for more than five years till he got caught at the Nelson Mandela memorial. Funny scenes lol 😂

Jourshuar2 months ago

She’s speaking Old Chinese, these were the actual tongues of the Han Dynasty

Odion Hendrix (M.D)2 months ago

Her English-speaking skill is below average for a 19 year old who claims to have learnt a chinese language so easily

Kos Trobu2 months ago

You can finesse your way into fame and fortune in this place if you know your way because the people here are not that intelligent and they don’t think things through. Everybody is just on vibes and most people capitalize on that. This Olodo uprising lo far gan!

Meron2 months ago

She carry punch and tik tok users handicap 😂 na Chinese of the future she Dey speak 😂

Maryam Habib2 months ago

As someone who studied Chinese language IN China, wrote HSK 4, Punch should have confirmed the translation before airing this embarrassment. si that she even said is wrong. It could mean number 4 or death. Chaiii! 😤

Fowowe 💰2 months ago

A deaf interpreter was busy interpreting gibberish at Buhari's inauguration in 2015. Something has been wrong with Nigeria since 1908

Neepha_orji2 months ago

i think there was a woman that did this too on national tv i think couple of years back whenever the president speaks she translate with her hands not knowing it was gibberish. she got arrested

SonOfManyPrayers🙏🏽2 months ago

Everything na mindset as she don pack followers now she go rebrand

Siyanbadey2 months ago

The English she has been taught with all her life sef she no gree sabi am well enough. Na language them no teach am she wan come sabi pass🤣😂

Alter Ego2 months ago

I swear if you’ve got confidence, you can say the dandiest and most gibberish of things No one would apprehend you 🤣

Feyi2 months ago

It’s not funny, how was this published by punch, man What’s wrong with Nigeria

Shop with Kuku2 months ago

So punch, a national news outlet, featured her without even confirming what she was saying with a translator? 😂🤣🤣

IamPrincipality2 months ago

If na my papa, him go flog her for like 3days for disgracing the family. Then flog all the people when senior am for house, then the people when let her watch Chinese films, then flog the person when bring punch come interview her.

d'Bola2 months ago

I just can't understand how major mainstream news outlets ho on to publish information without proper verifications.

Byrd Benson2 months ago

The punch newspapers should be ashamed of themselves for this. As always. This is one of the reasons nobody takes Nigeria seriously anywhere in the world

Ejiro2 months ago

She said Chinese is easy to learn That’s when they should have driven her out

XO2 months ago

Na wetin Nigerians like be this… fake prophet up and down 🤣🤣🤣

Nze2 months ago

It is good this has been dealt with. Done and dusted. Let's move to other things.

GOOD_GOD2 months ago

Omo... Country tuff die 😂😂 E fit be say na her Chinese be ancestral Chinese Sha 😂🤣😂

10XN ☁️2 months ago

She's speaking Yoruba Chinese.

Avril Amaka2 months ago

🤣🤣🤣 this is crazy

Jason FOMENKY2 months ago

That last person who said "at least she learnt something, wuna leave her" is the problems Nigerians have in Nigeria. Mediocrity

Mirabelle2 months ago

Laughing hard because it took my brother almost 8 years to reach HSK 5 level fluency

ALASOOKE❤2 months ago

idek what to say

Titus Okechukwu2 months ago

Let us say.. She is speaking ANCIENT CHINESE.. Or else, let us also assume... She is speaking FUTURE CHINESE

Dead Curious2 months ago

So when will a Chinese person learn our own language and they’ll publish it in their tabloids over there? Misplaced priorities and doing intentionally stupid things is our major problem!

kaito2 months ago

it’s so sad that Punch didn’t do due diligence. I shared with my friend who’s Taiwanese and she said words were being either mispronounced or totally indecipherable, making her speech gibberish.

Abu Bilaal2 months ago

Oshu toyi twi twi shonga I dey hear na rubbish chinko be this

EMEKA is the name.2 months ago

I won't blame people initially. But this is where they'll be problem 👇👇

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Let's talk about another state delegate of MD who also has something to do with CCP. Her name is Lily Qi (齐丽丽), also from China. During the 2024 election she delivered a speech while attending the Dem National Convention. In the first half of her speech she spoke in Chinese, she proudly announced that the state of MD had no land bill (like TX or FL) that restricts Chinese nationals from buying land, and she made a promise that there will NEVER be such a bill in MD. You know how far away is DC from MD and how many military bases out there. Lily Qi worked in Montgomery County, MD as a county official prior to her role as a state delegate. While working for the county，she promoted the county to establish sisterhood with Xi’an China and a few other Chinese cities, it's done! She didn't even hide the fact that she used CCP-controlled WeChat for her campaign, and succeeded. She was also a VIP guest of the biggest pro-CCP Chinese organization in America — United Chinese Americans. So should Lily Qi be investigated for her connections with the CCP?

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omg Heeseung said he still has a Chinese class tomorrow... he's really working so hard on improving himself 🥹🫳🏻 💬 "I love studying languages, so I speak five languages. but honestly, the only ones I can speak properly are Korean, English, and Japanese. I'm currently studying Spanish and Chinese, but I'm not really improving. so… my goal for this year is to become better at Chinese than Ddeung-D! just you wait, my rival!" 🐹 : actually, for me too, Chinese... well, actually, as for English, I'm at a level where I can have a conversation to some extent, but as for Chinese, I'm continuously putting in effort. by the way, I also have a Chinese lesson tomorrow. 🐹 : yes, so when it comes to languages, I think repetition is always the key. If you keep working hard at it, you'll definitely see good results. five languages... wow, speaking five languages is truly amazing. I hope you know that I really recognize and appreciate how hard you're working, User 3404. yes, fighting!!!! #EVAN #에반 #HEESEUNG #희승

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25,152 views • 2 months ago

An 82-year-old Cuban pilot went viral on Chinese social media after recounting his friendship with and studies in China during the 1960s and asking about the cost of a flight from Havana to Beijing to a Chinese tourist. Living in a cramped room with just one bed in Cuba, the 82-year-old is known as "Tito" on Chinese social media. When a Chinese female tourist walked by his door, he tried to converse with her despite her language barrier and initial shock. The girl later discovered that Tito was a Cuban pilot who studied aviation in Shanxi Province, China, from 1961 to 1963. Tito showed her his Chinese PLA graduation certificate and told her that he missed China and that most of his pilot friends had already died. After that, he asked how much a plane ticket from Havana to Beijing would cost. The girl later shared the video on Chinese social media, describing Tito as "the lonely grandfather in Cuba." She mentioned that Tito kept a little notebook in which he planned to jot down his inquiries for the Chinese and his wish lists for sites to visit in China. It appears that he had made repeated attempts to strike up conversations with Asian tourists who passed his door, but they all thought he was strange and quickly left. In Tito's notebook, you can still see Chinese expressions like "How are you?" "When will you leave?" and "When are you planning to return?" Tito's story has moved many Chinese internet users, who are rallying to help him get a plane ticket to China or locate his Chinese friends. In September 1961, the Cuban Air Force chose 223 young pilots (average age less than 20) to study in China. They were among the first international students to come to China, as the Chinese netizens learnt later. A Chinese netizen later claimed on social media that his grandfather was Tito's teacher at the time. The story of Tito has gone viral on Chinese social media. The official account of the Chinese PLA Air Force left a comment under Tito’s video, stating that they had been attempting to get in touch with Tito. The comment said that the Chinese PLA will never forget a friend like Tito and that their friendship will transcend space and time. Today is the Lantern Festival in China, a time for family reunions. The Chinese embassy in Cuba invited Tito and other Cuban pilots who had studied in China for their youth to attend the festival feast, where they reminisced and sang many Chinese songs together. The Chinese have an old proverb: "滴水之恩当涌泉相报" (A drop of water shall be returned with a burst of spring), being grateful is a virtue in Chinese culture; we always give back when someone helps us. The life and work of Canadian surgeon Norman Bethune is a topic included in Chinese school curricula; his heroic contributions to our cause during World War II are emphasized in our textbooks, and his legacy lives on in China. John Rabe, a German merchant who rescued some 250,000 Chinese people from the Nanjing Massacre, and his family are still very much loved and respected by the Chinese people. Thomas Rabe, a doctor at the medicinal Faculty of Heidelberg University in Heidelberg, southwest Germany, and grandson of John Rabe, sent a plea to the Chinese embassy in Germany in March 2020 for medicinal supplies to help his hospital battle the COVID-19 pandemic. In April 2020, with all of the necessary assistance and coordination, medical supplies given from various sources, including medicines, protective suits, and masks, arrived in Germany from China. Chinese embassy staff raced from Berlin to Heidelberg, a distance of 700 kilometers, to expedite the delivery of supplies to the Heidelberg administration, the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University, and Dr. Thomas Rabe.

An 82-year-old Cuban pilot went viral on Chinese social media after recounting his friendship with and studies in China during the 1960s and asking about the cost of a flight from Havana to Beijing to a Chinese tourist. Living in a cramped room with just one bed in Cuba, the 82-year-old is known as "Tito" on Chinese social media. When a Chinese female tourist walked by his door, he tried to converse with her despite her language barrier and initial shock. The girl later discovered that Tito was a Cuban pilot who studied aviation in Shanxi Province, China, from 1961 to 1963. Tito showed her his Chinese PLA graduation certificate and told her that he missed China and that most of his pilot friends had already died. After that, he asked how much a plane ticket from Havana to Beijing would cost. The girl later shared the video on Chinese social media, describing Tito as "the lonely grandfather in Cuba." She mentioned that Tito kept a little notebook in which he planned to jot down his inquiries for the Chinese and his wish lists for sites to visit in China. It appears that he had made repeated attempts to strike up conversations with Asian tourists who passed his door, but they all thought he was strange and quickly left. In Tito's notebook, you can still see Chinese expressions like "How are you?" "When will you leave?" and "When are you planning to return?" Tito's story has moved many Chinese internet users, who are rallying to help him get a plane ticket to China or locate his Chinese friends. In September 1961, the Cuban Air Force chose 223 young pilots (average age less than 20) to study in China. They were among the first international students to come to China, as the Chinese netizens learnt later. A Chinese netizen later claimed on social media that his grandfather was Tito's teacher at the time. The story of Tito has gone viral on Chinese social media. The official account of the Chinese PLA Air Force left a comment under Tito’s video, stating that they had been attempting to get in touch with Tito. The comment said that the Chinese PLA will never forget a friend like Tito and that their friendship will transcend space and time. Today is the Lantern Festival in China, a time for family reunions. The Chinese embassy in Cuba invited Tito and other Cuban pilots who had studied in China for their youth to attend the festival feast, where they reminisced and sang many Chinese songs together. The Chinese have an old proverb: "滴水之恩当涌泉相报" (A drop of water shall be returned with a burst of spring), being grateful is a virtue in Chinese culture; we always give back when someone helps us. The life and work of Canadian surgeon Norman Bethune is a topic included in Chinese school curricula; his heroic contributions to our cause during World War II are emphasized in our textbooks, and his legacy lives on in China. John Rabe, a German merchant who rescued some 250,000 Chinese people from the Nanjing Massacre, and his family are still very much loved and respected by the Chinese people. Thomas Rabe, a doctor at the medicinal Faculty of Heidelberg University in Heidelberg, southwest Germany, and grandson of John Rabe, sent a plea to the Chinese embassy in Germany in March 2020 for medicinal supplies to help his hospital battle the COVID-19 pandemic. In April 2020, with all of the necessary assistance and coordination, medical supplies given from various sources, including medicines, protective suits, and masks, arrived in Germany from China. Chinese embassy staff raced from Berlin to Heidelberg, a distance of 700 kilometers, to expedite the delivery of supplies to the Heidelberg administration, the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University, and Dr. Thomas Rabe.

Eivor

252,469 views • 1 year ago

Meltdown on an AirAsia flight from Chongqing, translated by The Great Translation Movement 大翻译运动 AirAsia flight D7809 Chongqing to Kuala Lumpur. A woman claiming to be a former China Southern Airlines flight attendant explodes because safety announcements were in English. She demands: “International flights must include Mandarin!” Crew tries calming her down. No dice. Airport police escort her off. Did you felt that more Chinese passengers are getting noticeably more sensitive about airlines not defaulting to Mandarin, and these scenes are becoming all too common especially on low-cost carrier. We remember a month or two ago same thing happened in Hong Kong and the ground crew was fired. Can AirAsia comment on this incident? Entitlement, fragile nationalism, or just the new normal for outbound travel? What do you think? #China #AirAsia #Entitlement #Aviation #Mandarin #GreatTranslationMovement #TGTM

Meltdown on an AirAsia flight from Chongqing, translated by The Great Translation Movement 大翻译运动 AirAsia flight D7809 Chongqing to Kuala Lumpur. A woman claiming to be a former China Southern Airlines flight attendant explodes because safety announcements were in English. She demands: “International flights must include Mandarin!” Crew tries calming her down. No dice. Airport police escort her off. Did you felt that more Chinese passengers are getting noticeably more sensitive about airlines not defaulting to Mandarin, and these scenes are becoming all too common especially on low-cost carrier. We remember a month or two ago same thing happened in Hong Kong and the ground crew was fired. Can AirAsia comment on this incident? Entitlement, fragile nationalism, or just the new normal for outbound travel? What do you think? #China #AirAsia #Entitlement #Aviation #Mandarin #GreatTranslationMovement #TGTM

The Great Translation Movement 大翻译运动

136,150 views • 5 months ago

The mayor of Arcadia, California is facing up to 10 years in prison after admitting to acting as an illegal agent for the People's Republic of China. According to the Justice Department, Eileen Wang would receive pre-written pro-Chinese articles from the Chinese government to post on her website, U.S. News Center. She would also communicate with Chinese officials to tell them how many views those articles would receive. CBS News' Nicole Sganga has more on what the DOJ and FBI found.

The mayor of Arcadia, California is facing up to 10 years in prison after admitting to acting as an illegal agent for the People's Republic of China. According to the Justice Department, Eileen Wang would receive pre-written pro-Chinese articles from the Chinese government to post on her website, U.S. News Center. She would also communicate with Chinese officials to tell them how many views those articles would receive. CBS News' Nicole Sganga has more on what the DOJ and FBI found.

CBS News

27,905 views • 4 months ago

In Aug 2025, Elsa Johnson, a Stanford student, wrote a piece for The Times about how members of the CCP tried to recruit her as a spy. Since then, the junior, who is majoring in East Asian Studies, has faced a wave of harassment from Mandarin speakers who have called her and threatened her and her family. The FBI also informed Johnson that the CCP is physically monitoring her whereabouts on campus — making her fear for her own safety. On Mar 26 she testified before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, urging Congress to do something to protect America’s students who “face transnational repression”, given that Stanford “has chosen not to address this problem at all”. Here is an abridged and lightly edited version of her testimony. ======= After I wrote a first-person account of my experience in The Times of London, the repression only worsened. Last summer, while conducting research on China in Washington, DC, I began receiving regular phone calls from unknown US numbers. When I answered the calls in English, the callers would switch to Mandarin. In one case, the caller referenced my mother. These bizarre calls were intimidation attempts, designed to remind me that neither my family, nor I, is safe from transnational repression by the CCP. Then, this past fall, the FBI informed me that I am being physically monitored on Stanford’s campus by agents of the Chinese Communist Party. They told me that my family is also at risk and is being monitored. As a 21-year-old who grew up loving the Chinese language and culture, I never imagined that studying it would put me in a position where a foreign intelligence service is tracking my movements on my own campus and monitoring my family. I fear for my safety and for my family’s safety. The intimidation calls have not stopped. Just this week, I received another call from a US number. After exchanging hellos, the caller switched to Mandarin and asked whether I had finished dinner. That cannot be a coincidence. It is happening to me on American soil because I reported on the activities of a foreign government at an American university. My experience is disturbing, but it reflects a much larger pattern playing out on campuses across the country. According to Freedom House, the Chinese government is the greatest perpetrator of transnational repression targeting students and scholars in the United States. Their 2024 report found that international students and faculty face surveillance and coercion by foreign governments. More than 1.3 million international students study at American colleges and universities, yet many are unable to exercise the freedoms that are supposed to define an American education. There is also infrastructure already embedded on American campuses that facilitates this system. Chinese Students and Scholars Associations (CSSAs) exist at roughly 150 American colleges and universities, including Stanford. The US State Department has stated plainly that the CCP created the CSSA to monitor Chinese students and mobilize them against views that dissent from the Party’s stance. The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission found in 2018 that CSSAs receive guidance from the CCP through Chinese embassies and consulates, and that they are active in carrying out work consistent with Beijing’s United Front strategy. In some cases, the local Chinese consulate must approve CSSA presidential candidates. Documents obtained by Foreign Policy showed that at Georgetown, the CSSA accepted embassy funding amounting to roughly half its total annual budget. The Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Stanford, or ACSSS, is a recognized student organisation that receives university support and funding. The CCP’s United Front uses these organisations as vehicles for surveillance and influence. American universities are supposed to be places where people can think and speak freely. Right now, for too many students, they are not.

In Aug 2025, Elsa Johnson, a Stanford student, wrote a piece for The Times about how members of the CCP tried to recruit her as a spy. Since then, the junior, who is majoring in East Asian Studies, has faced a wave of harassment from Mandarin speakers who have called her and threatened her and her family. The FBI also informed Johnson that the CCP is physically monitoring her whereabouts on campus — making her fear for her own safety. On Mar 26 she testified before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, urging Congress to do something to protect America’s students who “face transnational repression”, given that Stanford “has chosen not to address this problem at all”. Here is an abridged and lightly edited version of her testimony. ======= After I wrote a first-person account of my experience in The Times of London, the repression only worsened. Last summer, while conducting research on China in Washington, DC, I began receiving regular phone calls from unknown US numbers. When I answered the calls in English, the callers would switch to Mandarin. In one case, the caller referenced my mother. These bizarre calls were intimidation attempts, designed to remind me that neither my family, nor I, is safe from transnational repression by the CCP. Then, this past fall, the FBI informed me that I am being physically monitored on Stanford’s campus by agents of the Chinese Communist Party. They told me that my family is also at risk and is being monitored. As a 21-year-old who grew up loving the Chinese language and culture, I never imagined that studying it would put me in a position where a foreign intelligence service is tracking my movements on my own campus and monitoring my family. I fear for my safety and for my family’s safety. The intimidation calls have not stopped. Just this week, I received another call from a US number. After exchanging hellos, the caller switched to Mandarin and asked whether I had finished dinner. That cannot be a coincidence. It is happening to me on American soil because I reported on the activities of a foreign government at an American university. My experience is disturbing, but it reflects a much larger pattern playing out on campuses across the country. According to Freedom House, the Chinese government is the greatest perpetrator of transnational repression targeting students and scholars in the United States. Their 2024 report found that international students and faculty face surveillance and coercion by foreign governments. More than 1.3 million international students study at American colleges and universities, yet many are unable to exercise the freedoms that are supposed to define an American education. There is also infrastructure already embedded on American campuses that facilitates this system. Chinese Students and Scholars Associations (CSSAs) exist at roughly 150 American colleges and universities, including Stanford. The US State Department has stated plainly that the CCP created the CSSA to monitor Chinese students and mobilize them against views that dissent from the Party’s stance. The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission found in 2018 that CSSAs receive guidance from the CCP through Chinese embassies and consulates, and that they are active in carrying out work consistent with Beijing’s United Front strategy. In some cases, the local Chinese consulate must approve CSSA presidential candidates. Documents obtained by Foreign Policy showed that at Georgetown, the CSSA accepted embassy funding amounting to roughly half its total annual budget. The Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Stanford, or ACSSS, is a recognized student organisation that receives university support and funding. The CCP’s United Front uses these organisations as vehicles for surveillance and influence. American universities are supposed to be places where people can think and speak freely. Right now, for too many students, they are not.

Byron Wan

24,535 views • 6 months ago