I find it weird that I'm cantonese and not manderin seeing my family in china live in a manderin area and I can't understand a word of manderin. I can understand cantonese can't read/write and can get by just with speaking.
altho i'm chinese...i can barely write...read like half a sentence and speak like like half a sentence properly....i listen much better overall
lol I meant I'm suppose to be speakin cantonese but my parents figured I didn't need to learn growin up.
haha I gotcha, that was almost the case for me, I was born in the US but I was only taught to speak catonese, then, I learned english, forgot my chinese, and my parents almost gave up on teaching me catonese again.
ha My parents always spoke in chinese to me, they said don't need to worry about english cuz i live in england and go to school
Well, with me living in the US, I don't need to worry bout english either, but when I was entering Kindergarten I had to learn or be forever stuck in the Speech class >< quite embarrassing. And so, my brothers taught me and my parents helped by switching to english and I got caught up in the wonders of the english language I forgot my roots, and now, I'm currently trying to reach them, and make them grow, considering I still speak like a little child when I speak catonese.
Yeah, Canto-pride. hahaha That's really odd that there's only one Mando-person. I guess mostly Mando-ABCs/CBCs probably have their own forums to frequent. I'm a native Cantonese speaker, but because my dad's Toisan, I understand that and speak a few words, and I also am in my third year of Mandarin at the University-level.
I think in the long run, yeah, it doesn't matter too much, but I think there are also slight cultural differences, inherent in just the two different languages, that make the two very distinct.
