nico

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
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From :   Nicolas Vanegas

Date : 2008-11-04 / 09:22AM

你好 benny 你好吗? hey i have a doubt about the language well which is the difference between the mandarin,cantonese,simplified and traditional chinese?? still i cant understand well i wait your answer soon 好的 谢谢你 再见

nico

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 Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com 
2008-11-04 / 10:41AM

Hi Nicolas,

Mandarin is widely used in China and Hong Kong. It’s the official common language. While Cantonese is just a local dialect which is used in Hong Kong and Guang Dong province.

As for the characters, in mainland China, we all use only simplified. The traditional characters are used in Hong Kong and Tai Wan. But those 2 look similar for the structures.

Benny



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