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My taiwanese friend told me that's mainland propaganda and the chinese languages are too far apart to be considered dialects of mandarin, and that the mutual intelligibility is worse than like, spanish v french.
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What's the difference between chinese, cantonese and mandarin?
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chinese = mandarin if we're talking about china's official language
cantonese is a chinese dialect, kinda like how afrikaans is sort of a dutch dialect (?)
if you're fluent in cantonese you're likely fluent in chinese too but the opposite doesn't really apply
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thanks chobu
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My taiwanese friend told me that's mainland propaganda and the chinese languages are too far apart to be considered dialects of mandarin, and that the mutual intelligibility is worse than like, spanish v french.
Chinese diaspora politics are very dramatic.
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i really dont know whether it's propaganda i dont use cantonese enough to know but i guess the other dialects i know sound pretty far off
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