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Trends: Chinese goes to a wider audience

Learning Chinese may be a hard journey for some, but people on social media have found a fun way to make it easier - singing. The Uncommon Chinese, a song filled with rarely used Chinese words and idioms, has gone viral among Chinese learners worldwide, helping people to remember infrequent words in an entertaining way. Internet users from around the globe have shared videos of themselves singing the song on video apps such as Tik Tok. Christine Welch from the United States performed the Chinese song A Million Possibilities, which was an instant hit last year. Thousands used it as a soundtrack for video posts on Tik Tok.

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