but Mandarin speakers and Cantonese speakers can not understand each other when speaking. They're as different as Portuguese and Spanish or Catalan and French; perhapsmoredifferent. That in mind, from a purely linguistic perspective, they would seem to be ...
Mandarin vs. Cantonese: Two Different Languages If you're interested in learning Chinese, you may have heard of Mandarin and Cantonese. These two languages are both spoken in China, but they have significant differences in terms of pronunciation, grammar
爱看美剧的同学可能会发现,在谈到说中文的时候,外国人很少说Chinese,而是用了另一个词:Mandarin(普通话),记住前面的M要大写。 Chinese /ˌtʃai'ni:z/ 包含了普通话、广东话、上海话等等所有类型的“中文”,是涵盖最广的说法。 Mandarin /ˈmænd...
Don’t worry, Mandarin is the most widely spoken. It’s called "普通话(Pǔ tōng huà), which literally translates into “common tongue.” It has fewer tones than most other dialects (4 compared to Cantonese’s 9!) and is taught throughout mainland China in schools. When people are talk...
Cantonese and Mandarin history - About 1.3 billion people (one-fifth of the world) speak some form of Chinese. Read information on its long history.
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其中的北方官话(Mandarin)、吴语(Wu或者Shanghainese)、粤语(Yue或 Cantonese)、闽语(Min或Hokkien)、客家语(Hakka)、徽语(Hui)、赣语(Gan)、晋语(Jin)、淮语(Huai)、湘语(Xiang)等都是汉语语族里面的语言(language),因为这些不同语言区的认如果从小只接触过自己母语的话,是无法和其它语言区的人通话的。这些...
Only Taiwanese series I watched which I thought was quite good - "Ya Qi" (Mute Wife) long time back. A few extremely old ghost series on SBC. (Singapore Broadcasting Channel) Quite a few HK series (Seeking Qin, The Tycoon, etc.) Most recently, the Taipin
In Mandarin: xīn nián hǎo In Cantonese: san1 nin4 hou3 2. 过年好 - Happy Lunar New Year In Mandarin: guò nián hǎo In Cantonese: gwo3 nin4 hou3 3. 新年快乐 - Wishing You Happiness in the New Year. In Mandarin: xīn nián kuài lè ...
By the way, any mandarin speakers out there, can you please tell me if the mandarin part makes any sense? I know what I wanted to say but I don't actually speak any mandarin at all and can't even understand it. I used a dictionary to translate from cantonese to mandarin. Thank you...