Which Chinese dialect do you like most? & Which sounds b
(single choice)
1, Mandarin (國語/華語/普通話) 「Official language」<836 million>
2, Wunese (吳語) (Strictly speaking, the appellation of Shanghainese (上海話) isn't accurate enough) <77 million>
3, Cantonese (粵語/廣州話) <71 million>
4, Minnanese (閩南語/台語) 「白話字: Bân-lâm-gú 」<60 million>
5, Hakkanese (客家語-梅縣話) <34 million>
& Which would you like to learn? Thank you!
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Which Chinese dialect do you like most? & Which sounds best?
I am only familiar with Mandarin and Cantonese and I prefer Mandarin to Cantonese.
Cantonese has too many stresses so it sounds a bit annoying.
I like Beijing dialect, which is slightly different from putonghua. It has a lively and amiable tone, which is really music to me.
Cantonese is not a dialect. It's a language on its own.
Cantonese and Mandarin are much less similar than Spanish and Portuguese or Dutch and English.
Cantonese is a dialect of Chinese.
Some swedish dialects and standard swedish are mutually unintelligible but they are dialects of swedish,so Cantonese is a dialect
''so Cantonese is a dialect ''
it ain't
shut up, you commie
<<Muncton Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:24 pm GMT
''so Cantonese is a dialect ''
it ain't
shut up, you commie >>
That Cantonese is a dialect of Chinese is universally acknowledged in China.
Cantonese is spoken in Guangdong Province and Hong Kong SAR of the People's Republic of China, where Mandarin Chinese/Putonghua is the standard language spoken by 70% of the total population!
Cantonese is one of the many dialects of Chinese in China including Taiwan province.
If you want to work directly with China, then of course knowing Chinese will help, but I don't think there will be any particular need to do so. Any company working with China will have a few translators, and that's all that's really needed. That situation is no different than it is now, right?
If you want to learn Chinese, by all means learn Chinese, but it'd be a better idea to learn it just because you love the culture or the language. Besides, you would never have the patience to learn it otherwise -- at least, not both the spoken and written languages. Learning Chinese is a HUGE undertaking that's an order of magnitude more difficult than learning, say, a Romance language.