yea!!! I work at a chinese school and everyone is interested in mandarin. and all the mandarin teachers are like there is no market for cantonese :(
never had that trouble my m8 reckons its all the same manderin cantones chinese all gives a fuck it chinese anyway lol
I don't think the teachers know what they are talking about. More than half the Chinese population here in the US are canto speakers.
why do mandarin speakers just like to put us canto speaking people down as if we are a evil branch of the language .....
A lot of them are just condescendant people. Thinking they are the superior ones among all Chineses. *shakes fist at them*
but in china =\ everyone speaks mandarin. a lot of people in china don't know cantonese. the only cantonese speaking places are ghanzhou province and hk.
that's probably because more people hop over from hong kong and border of china than mainland china and taiwan.
Cantonese was big in the 80s and 90's (in all Chinatown in the world), now it seems to be loosing the battle.
Wow, my thread I started like 2 years ago is still going strong. Hey man, I'll kick a mando's ass any day. =P
There's always arguments for topics-- They probably think they are superior cause cantonese speaking "places" aren't so many.. Most of China speaks mando, so thats already over 1 billion speakers, how many in the world speak canto?
Surprisingly, there are a lot of mainland Chinese who don't have Mandarin as their first language, they have their own dialect. Not to mention, strictly speaking, that Mandarin (guan hua) is only the standardized official language spoken by Beijingers. Wu (Shanghainese), Cantonese, Min (Fujian hua), Hakka, Xiang (Hunan hua)... The number of dialects is endless. So comparing Mandarin and Cantonese isn't fair since they are not of the same scope.
what you are doing is exactly what you dislike others do to you. hypocrite? tats a strong word.. but you get the hint.
everyone thinks canto is another language. there was this girl in my school that asked "so you speak chinese or cantonese?" and i was like "AHHHHHHH!!!! you dick head!!" that pissed me off poropa!!!:(
haha.. ops.. my fault.. btw.. though i'm mando speaking.. which you might have guessed by now.. i am actually a fan of canto.. trying to learn through music.... hope i can one day understand the lyrics fully.. haha..
^ Yeah, same here. Except... canto lol. I listen to more Mando artists rather than Canto. A lot of the Canto singers suck. IMO.
