"How can you expect me to defect to the Celestial Empire when your replacement lingua franca is so unapproachable? Every weeb learned Japanese simply by exposure because it's easy as hell, meanwhile Chinese requires an Olympic training regiment just for speaking, and you'll always be clocked as a for"
"Mandarin sounds so grating to me. Maybe it's overexposure, but even hearing cute kids speaking it now makes me turn my headphones up. The combination of plosives, hard shushes, ending nearly every sentence in 'aghh' and the tone changes get to me."