I'd love to try but I got put off by a colleague at work. He was born in Hong Kong and only speaks Cantonese but has been trying to learn Mandarin because that seems to be becoming more prevalent outside of China. He's having all kinds of problems and when he tried to explain the six tone sounds going down to four tone sounds, it fried my brain. I just don't think I could ever determine the difference in quick speech.
I speak mandarin, don't understand a word of Cantonese, might as well be two different languages :/
Learning to speak it is not too bad, we don't have different verb endings, we just use the infinitive, plus to speak in different tenses you just add a time frame and/or one word. Writing is a nightmate though, bleugh
Is English your first language?
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I'd love to try but I got put off by a colleague at work. He was born in Hong Kong and only speaks Cantonese but has been trying to learn Mandarin because that seems to be becoming more prevalent outside of China. He's having all kinds of problems and when he tried to explain the six tone sounds going down to four tone sounds, it fried my brain. I just don't think I could ever determine the difference in quick speech.
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I speak mandarin, don't understand a word of Cantonese, might as well be two different languages :/
Learning to speak it is not too bad, we don't have different verb endings, we just use the infinitive, plus to speak in different tenses you just add a time frame and/or one word. Writing is a nightmate though, bleugh