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Are you a native speaker? Because 廣東話 and 閩南話 are totally unintelligible to me, and I want your language superpower.

• HumanDrivenDev 9y ago
  Its just typical chinese nationalist mythology. 'We all speak the same language' is just another fairy tale they drill into their heads, along with '5000 years of culture' When youve talked to one of them youve talked to all of them.
  • tonylinn80 9y ago
    A few dialects are unintelligible indeed, and they're mostly spoken in southern parts of China. But most people can understand dialects spoken in central and east (north of Changjiang river) fairly easily even though they cannot speak those dialects.
    • HumanDrivenDev 9y ago
      And Portuguese people can often understand Spanish. Are they dialects?