I want to learn chinese because i love chinese culture and want to meet alot of chinese people. It would be cool to just go to china one day and make a bunch of chinese friends. What type of chinese should I learn? Cantonese or Mandarin? What do u guys think is better/more useful? Thanx!
i speak fluent cantonese... and learning mandarin now... i would suggest mandarin first... since most of China speaks it in general... and cantonese is mainly in Hong Kong and Guangzhou~ and if u dont know ANY Chinese at all... mandarin only has 5 tones and is simplified characters... while cantonese has i think 7 or 9 tones and uses traditinal chinese characters... mainly thing is wat you fancy as well... Hong Kong culture and Mainland China culture is different! hope this helps a little~
lol ,its easier to learn the basics of canto, and then move on to mando, plus, canto is like better for dramas and movies and cantonese music cept mando has like a bigger market
if u plan to do business with china, def learn mando our prime minister can speak mando but i like canto beta, i think its easier to learn mando cos canto has a lot of slang
lol, most of the better music is in mando tho and mando will get you more connections, since mandarin is like the 2nd most spoken language in the world after english
i think mando would be better, cos more pple are using it now... but if u got the time, learn canto as well
do people usually learn to speak only? Or do they learn to write too? ahha that would be crazy to learn to write it...
MANDARIN! And learn Simplified, everyone will eventually change. Well, I'm guessing most people learn how to read AND write, but you can focus on speaking--later learning to write if the interest in Chinese persists.
Learn Mandarin ... but there is a difference of Mandarin ... the Taiwanese Mandarin sounds more polite and eloquent ... the Mainland Mandarin is harsh and sounds like crap ...
biased cantonese is a minority language and with china being a new world status you'd be sure to learn mandarin first if you ever want to do business in asia or get around china. Even if you know cantonese you will not learn mandarin in a day, it'll prob help you with %5 of understanding mandarin. As for cantonese, if you are learning chinese for fun and not worried about future proofing yourself and like hong kong then go with it, but be warned, alot of the big budget movies and entertainment will be in mandarin native language now :sp_ike_d:
^ yesh i agreee....even kiddies in uk...have the option to learn mando from the age of 12 when they hit secondary school...but thats providing the school has a mando teacher....but yeshhh mando is becoming a language which even young kids can learn @ school showing...how big and world-wide its becoming...
