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belizemanmex
Date : 2008-05-06 / 09:57AM
Hi Benny,In English the difference between american and british is the spelling in a few words and the pronunciation but everyone understands it. Is it the same with Mandarin, Cantonese and Pekinese?
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Chinese Mandarin : Registered on : 2007-08-05 Language : None Posts : 0 Responses : 411 Comments : 2 |
| | Jenny Li hotmail.com 2008-05-06 / 11:00AM | | Both cantonese and pekinese are local languages of certain areas.
Cantonese is popular in Guangdong province and Hongkong.
Pekinese is used in Beijing city.
But mandarin is popular in “all of the world”. Beijing and Guangdong people understand mandarin. The difference is prounciation. | |
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Chinese Mandarin : Registered on : 2007-01-01 Language : English, Mandarin Chinese Posts : 0 Responses : 2359 Comments : 75 |
| | Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com 2008-05-06 / 06:44PM | | Cantonese is very different from Mandarin, it’s the dialect which has been used mainly in Hong Kong and Guang Dong Province. Pekinese is almost 70% similar to Mandarin, just some local saying and sentence structures are different
Learn Chinese, Learn Mandarin from AskBenny | |
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