What Chinese dialect do you speak?

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

  1. Smyng

    Smyng Member

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    Cantonese...and Mandarin mixed?

    My parents speak cantonese, and I understand fluently..but speak sort of broken cantonese. I just started taking mandarin this year, and now i speak better mandarin than i do cantonese..but still understand cantonese way more than mandarin. Ive also become obsessed with Mandarin pop. Its confusing now, i feel like im betraying my culture! but cantonese is still way better :]
     
  2. Strohm

    Strohm Member

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    Cantonese. Cause I'm from Hong Kong. Don't really know Mandarin too well.
     
  3. sac12410

    sac12410 Active Member

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    ngai, cantonese, mandarin (not much but enough to order food. dancey1), vietnamese (only to point of ordering food :p ) I also mix all my languages together so it's basically Chinglish.-bowroflarms
     
  4. alexleong

    alexleong Member

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    i speak mandarin, canto, hakka, hokkien, english
     
  5. Wang Cheng

    Wang Cheng Active Member

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    me too, I am speaking cantonese,
     
  6. dragontea

    dragontea Member

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    cantonese and english.. though i look white
     
  7. tom88my

    tom88my Active Member

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    Cantonese and a little Mandarin....
     
  8. turquoise90

    turquoise90 Member

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    Cantonese and and simple Hokkien..
     
  9. PrinceDevil

    PrinceDevil Member

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    I mainly speak HK Cantonese with a bit Toi Shan dialect implemented in it.
     
  10. macahlo

    macahlo New Member

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    i speak mandarian and taiwanese!
     
  11. bLiTz13

    bLiTz13 Member

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    only canto
     
  12. Haxxxess

    Haxxxess Member

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    I speak canto
     
  13. Baby07

    Baby07 Active Member

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    I speak Canto, Mandarin, Hokkien and English.
     
  14. yhw

    yhw Member

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    I speak Cantonese and Dutch quite fluent. I am currently learning Mando at the university
     
  15. tranzformer

    tranzformer Member

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    cantonese and somewhat fluent in viet...I was born in Vietnam to Chinese parents
     
  16. warezmansion

    warezmansion New Member

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    i can speak mandarin...besides that, i speak very broken cantonese..haha..i can understand cantonese if ppl talk it to me..
     
  17. Hscuang

    Hscuang Member

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    i speak hokkian and mandarin
     
  18. [mJ9]

    [mJ9] Well-Known Member

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    i don't speak hakka but i understand sometimes when my mum speaks...
     
  19. woahitsdavid

    woahitsdavid Member

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    My family is a taishanese decent. I speak taishanese and cantonese[learned from tvb :D]

    In cantonese you can say "Where are you?" [Lay herng been dou?]
    In taishanese, it becomes [Ni hiang nai?] It's hard to explain in text, but if you can speak and listen to cantonese fluently, you can understand taishanese pretty easily
     
  20. Atenias

    Atenias New Member

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    Cantonese, can't understand Mandarin at all, except for a little Taiwanese-Mandarin (from the drama's), because that dialect sounds like Cantonese.