What Chinese dialect do you speak?

Discussion in 'Chinese Chat' started by Yong-Shi, Jul 10, 2007.

  1. kl006

    kl006 Member

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    canto. mom and dad both canto. but dad knows broken hakka. since he moved to hk at age 5.
     
  2. metzo

    metzo Well-Known Member

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    Cantonese for mee~! but i speak mandarin/shanghainese for wrk sometimes =]
     
  3. mingming2006

    mingming2006 Well-Known Member

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    canto, bt learnin mandarin (through me mandarin songs) lols...
     
  4. Qman

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    I speak Cantonese and Hakka. Speak Hakka to my grandparents, but use a mixture of both when speaking to parents and relatives.
     
  5. imdaman

    imdaman New Member

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    i speak cantonese and learning to speak mandarin right now :)
     
  6. lala_bel_tempo

    lala_bel_tempo Well-Known Member

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    i speak Chiu chow

    :p
     
  7. ditzy

    ditzy Well-Known Member

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    cantonese, a lil mandarin.. made in HK but manufactured in Frisko ~_~
     
  8. SySy

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    Hey all!
    Waoh, I must say that I'm impressed that so many of you speak canto (and other dialects as well, for sure ;) )

    I feel that I need to apologize here, coz I speak mandarin but none of the other dialects you speak... even thought I can understand a few words in canto or Chiu jiu... (good to have friends from everywhere).
    My parents are from Zhejiang, Mainland... So I speak 2 dialects from there: Qingtian-ese and Wenzhou-nese.
    Does those ring a bell to any of you ?
     
  9. hksar

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    cantonese and little mandarin, but man do I wish I listen to my parents and study harder on those Sunday classes for mandarin-surr
     
  10. ckthepilot

    ckthepilot Well-Known Member

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    cantonese and shanghaihua for me :)
     
  11. mr_evolution

    mr_evolution ( • )( •ԅ(ˆ⌣ˆԅ)

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    Whole family Canto :)
     
  12. qtmike

    qtmike Member

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    i speak both canto and mando.
     
  13. hksar

    hksar Active Member

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    Born in HK and speak Cantonese
     
  14. bbes

    bbes Incredible

    oh did u move to the US as a small child then?
     
  15. Xint

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    I only speak cantonese.
     
  16. xunx

    xunx Well-Known Member

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    speak cantonese, hakka, and madarine but i forgot all about it so yea... also i spend around 2 or 3 year learn vietnamese also, im a multilingual freak LOL
     
  17. Dgini

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    i can a little canto, madarin and a dialect of my hometown. (near Wenzhou)
     
  18. Chibi12

    Chibi12 Well-Known Member

    ok lets see, I can spk canto (though conversational, not all that good, born in UK), my mum can spk canto, vietnamese and a bit of mandarin, and my dad can spk canto, hakka, chiu chow, a bit of mandarin and vietnamese. My mum, born in vietnam, but is chinese, and my dad in china somewhere - has told me loads of time but I keep 4getting! Obviously, my 1st language is english, thou i am proud of my cantonese cos alot of HK pple born over here my age or younger (n even some older) dont understand cantonese at all!!
     
  19. william ham

    william ham Active Member

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    cantonese & fu kien
     
  20. llouisaa

    llouisaa Member

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    canto ♥