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How close is mandarin to Cantonese?
by aswanson 3y ago
How close is mandarin to Cantonese?
- tmtvl 3y agoAbout as close as English and Swedish.
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- Baeocystin 3y agoI have warm memories as a kid going with my Mom to the daily market, and watching people communicating by furiously writing words in their hands, in addition to the simplified tradespeak between the language groups. It's an interesting thing, having both a shared writing system and mutually unintelligible spoken language!