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然后让更多的德国人或者是欧洲人认识这个琵琶。
So I listened to a speech from a high performance 琵琶 player in Germany. I think I pinned down this sentence completely except this 或者是. In these three words, I am pretty sure about 或是. But 者 is the one that I could not hear clearly.
What could that word be?
yes, it is 或者是.
From the meaning, 或 alone is alright here. 或者 and 或 means the same in Chinese.
Sometimes the choice between 或者 and 或 is related to the rhythm of sentence.
然後讓更多的德國人[pause here]或者是歐洲人[pause here]認識這個琵琶。
Both 更多的德國人 and 或者是歐洲人 are with six characters/syllables.
Another reason is a historical one. 或者 is commonly used in Classical Chinese as the start of a short sentence (complete or incomplete in English sense). 「或者是歐洲人」is treated as a short sentence.
If you want to dig a little bit deeper about 者, here is my explanation.
者 can accept anything before it, any word, any phrase. It is a marker referring to anything prepended to it. You might perceive it as "one that". 或者 is "one that is alternative" or "alternative one" and it simply means "or".
