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> waiters who can effectively converse in Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, English, and some additional family dialect Chinese who can speak any one of those lang
by vorg 13y ago
> waiters who can effectively converse in Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, English, and some additional family dialect
Chinese who can speak any one of those languages (Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkein) or some others (like Hunanese, Gan) can easily pick up one of the others by living in one of the places where they're spoken.
- jamesdutc 13y agoThis is, of course, true, but I don't know that it really diminishes the accomplishment. (As the joke goes, for some dialects, you just "modulate [the tones] down.")