Mandarin Chinese

And people don't think about it that way, but that's also one of the reasons where I'm like, it's so valuable not just to pick up another language that's close to yours, but to pick up a language that's completely different.

And my wife speaks Mandarin, um, and spent ti- you know, a good bit of time in Chinese.

She's, she's American, so I kind of joke she doesn't speak English.

She speaks American and Southern-

[laughs]

... and Mandarin.

Completely different.

Yeah, yeah.

Lot, you know, it's all Chinese-based language.

Mandarin, um, Tachin, uh, translates to stepping into gold or stepping on gold in Mandarin.

I don't speak Mandarin.

It said it in the story when I scrolled, so please don't misunderstand.

Um, essentially it looks like if you wanna, if you wanna get involved in the criminal underground, like find phishing platforms, whatever, this group is the one that kind of brokers and connects those B2B transactions.

We have two for Cantonese.

Dari, Farsi, French, Haitian Creole, Japanese, Korean, two for Mandarin, Portuguese, Brazil, Portuguese, Europe, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Tajik, Ukrainian, Uzbek, and Vietnamese.

That is a good sampling of languages right there.

okay so you guys uh were part of the team that developed and created this yes yeah we were the team

It took us nearly an hour to crawl back, an hour so thick with exhaustion and vertigo that every step felt like crossing continents, not meters.

Ren nearly collapsed twice, and Lynn started speaking in half-formed syllables, reverting to Mandarin, then Russian, then mangled English, as if her mind could not choose a single timeline to anchor itself.

Ivan's face had stiffened into a calm, unblinking smile, eyes tracking a horizon none of us could see.

At a hundred meters from the station, we tried to radio for help.

It could be a language that they speak.

So maybe they're coming from China, or maybe they're coming from Japan and, you know, a Japanese speaking or Mandarin speaking buyer's agent has that speciality, which is going to invoke more trust.

And so we found that there was a significant amount of different specialities and geographical regions that a buyer's agent could become an expert.

And you're just not going to get that nuance in those first five or 10 listings on Google when searching buyer's agent, right? So what we focused on is how do we make sure that we get the best buyer's agents and make sure that we can present those buyer's agents to those customers.

And he said that he was in an NBA locker room and he got some weird looks.

Because do you know how you say um or uh in Mandarin? Go for it, Chris.

Nay.

That's um.

Turned by basketball players.

And he's talking on the phone.

In Mandarin.

Yeah.

There was a school in New York City where that adopted this philosophy.

And I think it was Mandarin and Spanish potentially as the two tracks a decade or so ago.

And those kids were absolutely fluent and immersed themselves in that.

I think that's phenomenal.

It could happen.

Xi does speak some English, and President Trump will tell you that if you wanted to, he could speak Mandarin better than Confucius.

However, President Trump has already said, quote, We're leading China in AI.

And frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI wins, end quote.

One second.

Where did he go? [knocking] [speaking Mandarin] There we go.

All right.

Da la.