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ikiouka
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« on: March 08, 2006, 03:32:25 PM » |
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Which one is the best to learn Mandarin or Cantonese I know they are similar but still I'd like to know which one is the best to learn?
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hellokitty
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« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2006, 03:53:57 PM » |
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i wud say mandarin as it is more popular, i wana learn mandarin
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SnoopyMe
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« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2006, 05:51:21 PM » |
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yeahs... wayyy more peopo speak mando, but i donno mando though and i wanna learn it.
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tigerlilyx
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« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2006, 08:43:28 PM » |
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I wanna learn Canto! I already know Mandarin haha...so I guess it depends on what you already have...but yah I guess a lot of people are saying Mandarin is becoming more popular...I would still rather know BOTH!
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Aznmagic
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« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2006, 05:06:21 PM » |
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how strange though even though more people speak mandarin, most of the chinese people i no outside of chinese school speak canto O_O
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ikiouka
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« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2006, 05:09:47 PM » |
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how strange though even though more people speak mandarin, most of the chinese people i no outside of chinese school speak canto O_O Yeah I heard that a lot more people from outside china are speaking cantonese
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Julzx
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« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2006, 10:49:15 AM » |
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yeah thats true, alot of ppl speak cantonese outside of china
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cute_piggy
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« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2006, 09:09:40 PM » |
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I know cantonese and chinese as well. For me, both of that is same. Just chinese is more standard language....
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dmonk
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« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2006, 12:10:57 AM » |
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that's because cantonese were the ones that migrated. they moved during the maoist era.
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Kage_Musha
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« Reply #9 on: March 14, 2006, 07:09:00 AM » |
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Mandarin is the language to learn period.
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SUSIE-DANG-1988
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« Reply #10 on: March 17, 2006, 06:25:34 AM » |
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i can spk cantonese fluent and can read chinese... but i can understand mandarin and can spk basic mando...
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DGS_VEX
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« Reply #11 on: March 17, 2006, 03:46:14 PM » |
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how does one tell the diffrence between cantonese and mandrian?
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aznks
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« Reply #12 on: March 18, 2006, 02:12:57 PM » |
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i can speak mandarin and cantonese.. i speak mandarin better than cantonese but i understand cantonese better than mandarin. :?
i think mandarin is easier to speak..
i know more peolpe who can speak cantonese.. cuz other chinese people i know, speak their own language.. like wenzhou hua, hakka or shanghai hua..
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Daniel_Wu_is_Hot
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« Reply #13 on: March 19, 2006, 08:32:31 PM » |
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mmm well i only know canto but mando is better known worldwide. In my opinion, mando is easier to learn cuz of pinyin(?) plus 3 out of every 5 chinese people i meet only speak mando now.  looks like i'm gonna have to learn someday.
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Lithy
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« Reply #14 on: March 22, 2006, 04:41:58 PM » |
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well i grew up learning canto as my first language.. i learned english in school. I went chinese mando school for few years about 14 lol >_<; it was boring anyway.. ...
i believe hkm91450 is right. mando for mainland china business and canto for hong kong and canada! pssh canto #1 :!:
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alekos
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« Reply #15 on: March 23, 2006, 02:06:07 PM » |
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Mandarin is the in demand langauge world-wide. the ammount of Mandarijn speakers wordl wide even outside the PRC far outsrip cantonese. For business Mandarin si becoming very important, secondary only to English world-wide. You'll be hard pressed to dfind many people studying Cantonese outside Gungdung province yet threouhgout Hong Kong every kid has to learn Mandarin. sad to say but the numbers of cantonese speakers are diminishing. Soon itll face the problem that other minroity language such as hakka, diojiu etc.. faced
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Daniel_Wu_is_Hot
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« Reply #16 on: March 23, 2006, 02:51:25 PM » |
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^ wow that's depressing. nice to find out one day my native language is gonna die out on me. but yeah ur rite, mando is slowly taking over everything. even my fav drama is in mando but then again, ISWAK is taiwanese...
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Lithy
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« Reply #17 on: March 23, 2006, 06:26:26 PM » |
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lets go start a protest and keep canto alive! LOL
whos in with meeeee
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Daniel_Wu_is_Hot
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« Reply #18 on: March 25, 2006, 03:37:36 PM » |
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lets go start a protest and keep canto alive! LOL
whos in with meeeee I AM!!! lol. yeah i dont want canto to just disappear off the face of the earth. I think the fact that HK speaks canto is good enough. but i dont think mando actually sounds better than canto. it's prolly just cuz i'm used to canto and mando sounds different. Mando sounds like what non chinese classigy as chinese (ching bok wong ming). I hate it when idiots go around saying that when they see a take-out place or an asian man.
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Lithy
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« Reply #19 on: March 26, 2006, 05:49:22 AM » |
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I AM!!! lol. yeah i dont want canto to just disappear off the face of the earth. I think the fact that HK speaks canto is good enough. but i dont think mando actually sounds better than canto. it's prolly just cuz i'm used to canto and mando sounds different. Mando sounds like what non chinese classigy as chinese (ching bok wong ming). I hate it when idiots go around saying that when they see a take-out place or an asian man.
~ I totally agree with u!! Canto sounds way better than evil mando [sry for mando people here xP] When i went back HK last summer from my resources, they are forcing schools to teach mando now since this fuss over china owning hk again poop ._. im so scared of canto turning into minor language like shunghu zhojo and many more.
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