Is Cantonese more related to Thai than to Chiniese?
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Nope. Its a chinese dialect. Many people in Hong Kong speak it. Its read from chinese words. Just pronounced differently it seems. May be closer to Thai, but definately not related.
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Ni Hao Conor, I'd just like to say for the record there isn't a language called Chinese. In China there's two main languages, Mandarin and Cantonese. Cantonese is usually spoken in Hong Kong and Mandarin is spoken pretty much everywhere else.\n\nI think it'd be great to learn Mandarin, it's a widely used language. You could learn it for business or for traveling, or to even have foreign friends.
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I find that the Chinese can be the most reflective nationality...The Japanese are the most careful when it comes to preservation and balance...The Koreans have the best language in the world, bar none...The Vietnamese have a pride and self-respect that is unmatched...The Filipinos have a strength that most others in their position would scarcely uphold... Hard to choose. Nice question. :)
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mandarin??  hahaha\nno, the majority of chinese americans speak cantonese, because back during the days when america was seeing a large influx of chinese immigrants, they mostly came from the more southern regions of china.  here's a link about chinese language in general, dialects, and other fun stuff if you're interested:\n\nhttp://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/chin/hbchilang-u.html
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Cantonese is the spoken in Hong Kong but most people can speak English.  Putonghua is another word for Mandarin which is official language in China.  People in Taiwan use that too!
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Vietnamese,chinese,thai,etc....but mostly Filipino-I love their mix and they got a cool culture...and alot of them are soooooo hot!Beware though...they can be very hot tempered when provoked but can also be the sweetest too...and don't have problems keeping up if you know what I mean.
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dont most chinese learn it from their family?
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_(linguistics)\n\nMandarin ---(Traditional: 北方話, Simplified: 北方话, Hanyu Pinyin: Běifānghuà, lit. "Northern speech" OR 北方方言 Hanyu Pinyin: Běifāng Fāngyán, lit. "Northern dialects"), is a category of Chinese dialects spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The term "Mandarin" can also refer to Standard Mandarin, which is based on the Mandarin dialect spoken in Beijing. Standard Mandarin is the official spoken language of the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), and one of the official spoken languages of Singapore. When taken as an independent language, as is often done in academic literature, Mandarin has more speakers than any other language.\n\n"Mandarin" usually refers to only standard Mandarin in everyday usage. The broad academic concept of "Mandarin" encompasses a large number of linguistically related dialects, some less mutually intelligible than others, and is very rarely used outside of academic circles as a self-description. Instead, when asked to describe the spoken form they are using, Chinese speaking a form of Mandarin will describe the variant that they are speaking, for example Sichuan dialect or Northeast China dialect, and may not recognize that it is in fact classified by linguists as a form of "Mandarin". Nor is there a common "Mandarin" identity based on language, though there are strong regional identities centered around individual Mandarin dialects.\n\nLike all other varieties of Chinese, there is plenty of dispute as to whether Mandarin is a language or a dialect. Please see here for the issues surrounding this dispute.
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There is no physical difference between Chinese and Japanese.   However the difference is, Chinese people are from China, speak Chinese, and have Chinese culture, similar to Japanese’s but different.  Japanese people are from Japan, speak Japanese, and have Japanese culture, which is similar to Chinese’s, but different.  That’s how we are different form each other, but we do not need to look different in order to be different.  No one goes on about how Australian people look different from people of New Zealand, or German people from Austrians, or English people form French, or Czech people form Slovakian people, do they?  That's because everyone knows they are different even if they may not look different.  Same thing for Japanese and Chinese. \nAs a Japanese person, I get lots of questions about how we look different form Chinese people, and lots of opinions of how they think we look different from each other.  Personally, I find it nonsense.  Japanese are from Japan, Chinese are from China.  That's all.\nBut mind you, China is a big country, and Japan is a long country form North to South.  It is more down to individuals than anything else, but as it is so, if you compare a person from a place in China next to Nepal to a person form Hokkaido, North Japan, occasionally (not always) you may find a slight difference because one's from North and the other's form South.   Same thing can happen if you compare someone from Okinawa, South Japan to someone from North China near Russia.  That may confuse some people and make them think there is a difference between us.  But remember, country borders are man made, and people do not suddenly look different because of that.
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asia is multi racial. singapore for example is home to malay, chinese and indi. i doubt if asia will be "globally-multi racial" in the future.
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Trust me, it is. China is growing and mandarin can get you through with many people. I've studied Mandarin before, but then again, I am Chinese and speak Cantonese, so it would be so much easier for me to get the hold of the langauge, anyway, we were forced to learn it at school.
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no, spoken, they are completely different. \nhowever, if you can read chinese characters, you may be able to decipher some words (written) in either language but only vaguely,,,,,
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Chinese,but I live a multi race country.\nThere are tons and tons holidays here.\nMy favourite is Chinese New Year,of course.Cleaning and decorating the house with reds.With lots of ang pau from the elders,fire crackers and yummy foods and drinks,gathering with friends and family.
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Mandarin is the main Chinese dialect of China.  Only a small portion (southern China) speaks Cantonese.
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Well, Vietnamese was strongly influenced by French. I used to think Vietnamese was actually a combination of French and Chinese, but I'm not sure how much of it is true.\n\nIf you speak a language spoken in Southeast Asia, Vietnamese would come natural to you. Otherwise, French is much easier, to a native Indo-European-language speaker.
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Great. Find a Fil-Chinese in the Philippines. You learn English more from a Filipino than any other.
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They are two totally different languages.Although mandarin is used throughout CHina as the official Chinese language, Cantonese is spoken as a regional language.So people who hail from the Guangzhou region speak the language.You can hear Cantonese used  widely in Hong Kong while Mandarin is used on the mainland.Other regional dialects are Hakka,Teow Chew and Hokkien.\n   A person who speaks a dialect will not be able to understand Mandarin unless they have learnt the language.