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Registered on : 2008-04-29
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James Barratt
Date : 2008-04-29 / 06:32AM
Hi Benny, just joined the site and watching your videos on you tube, so happy i found a way to learn Mandarin. Just wondering because i have a lot of friends at school who are British Born Chinese but they all speak Cantonese rather than Mandarin, and the question i want to ask is whether or not one has more significance than the other. I mean do more people speak one than the other? Also you’re great at English and was that hard for you to learn?
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| | Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com
2008-04-29 / 08:33AM | | Hi James,welcome to Bennysland:)
You friends in UK are originally from Guang Dong Province or Hong Kong. Only these 2 places use Cantonese. But they still learn Mandarin at school in China.
Mandarin is a standard language in China, though there are so many local dialects here. But if you speak Mandarin, everybody understands you.
As for my English, I think it’s very difficult to learn, I started when I was in primary school
Benny
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Chinese Mandarin :Registered on : 2008-04-29 Language : None Posts : 1 Responses : 1 Comments : 1 |
| | James Barratt hotmail.com
2008-04-30 / 03:58AM | | so you haven’t finished learning English, well you’re better than some English people any ways. Also the response you gave on youtube you said that to say im english was wǒ shì yīng guó rén but how would you pronounce the yīng guó part? Xièxie Benny. | |
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