chinese - mando/canto?

[pwanda]

hey pplz,

just wondering, are most of u mando or canto speakers?

and which part of china (yes, i include taiwan as part of it too :bleh: ) are u all from or originate from??

[ColaPoP]

I was born in the land of Ulurah. Where chickens rap, horses ride jockeys, and asses such as yourself pop your head out from under whatever-rock-gave-birth-to-you very infrequently because whenever you do appear, people bite.

I hear you're a strong contender for the Darwin awards...I hope you win.

[stargirl]

Lmao pei.... hey pwanda take the hint i think someone is unhappy!

[chingyan]

well.. i am a canto speaker, and actually from HK...but i do know mando as well..^^

[Vicluva]

I am a very rare breed of giraffe who can speak mandarin and looks like a human, i have develped a skill over the millions of years i've been alive that allows me to type with my tongue. i also breathe thru my ears.
A bunch of children found me living under a tree and thought i was a goddess and worshipped me from then on...:bow: :tongue:

[Pey-ru]

Hmm I can speak chinese...*cough* not realli good...I can listen quite well and write quite well..>.<..I can understand and talk a little of canto...>><<..I wish I could talk canto fluently....*cry* *cry* T^T...But people in skool about 95% of them can either talk canto or chinese...OOOooOOOoo...they r so smart...so many esl people in my skool

[QS]

i can speak both mando and canto... canto if I really want to but no one who really knows me (including my family) ever heard me speak it. I only say it if I'm forced to, nothing against it, i'm just not use to speaking in canto anymore.

[aZn_tears]

well i speak canto and i can understand Mandarine but can only speak bits of it *sob* *sob*

[stargirl]

well i speak english................... and a bit of french and indonesian. I can understand a bit of spanish and latin as well! Oh and i can speak double dutch and pigeon english! im also fluent in farm animal dialect! are you?

[mitsui]

...................er no
i only know mando
that is it~ -____-

[Vicluva]

I can also communicate with cats, i stare at my cat, he stares back, then he walks away! im trying to learn piglatin and fuzzlelanguage that my friends have invented. oh yeah, im multilingual! :rolleyes:

[kirasuran]

hihi i speak canto but like i wanna read and write it and speak mando as well, so u could say that im only 1/4 there....my parents from hk but me born HERE MWAHAHA in AUS go WALLABIES!!!

[AzN_cHiCk]

i was born in aussieralia....i speak english, dont know canta and can kinda speak mandarin and timorese

[Onigiri]

I am born in australia but I can speak canto. my dad is honkie and my mums from guangzhou. y'know alot of people that are born in australia can't really speak canto/mando which i think is sad.

[Dita511]

LOL I am learning Mandarin, but i've still got a long way to go!! But i'll get there, you'll see :bleh: :wink2: speak english and very little french. I know about 6 phrases in Japanese & Canto only :oops: haha

[shiroyume]

um.. well.. i dont belong to any part of china?o.Oll im from australia-__-;;
i speak cantonese.. btu i went to chinese school.. and so i also know a bit of mandarin..
oh.. yeah i also owe the fact that i can speak a bit of mandarin.. to jay=)

[kirasuran]

hahah me tooO!! born here and like know NO chinese but watch films heaps and the dramas and learn heaps how to talk iT! canto btw, and i wanna learn how to write and read, and also mando but i sux too muchhh

[E5cher]

I'm Chinese...born here, I spoke Cantonese fluently until I was like 7 (well as much as a 7 year old can) then lost it all really through schooling. Well not all, I can understand some Cantonese, but speaking is a great effort, usually takes me about a minute to piece together a basic sentence.

[MonkeyKing]

born in HK but raised in Aussie... is there are more sexy combination **winks** (j/k)

i can speak Cantonese and English... but i have trouble writing and reading Chinese.

[flackjack]

i went to mandarin school for 13 years and still can't speak that fluently!

[munchi_75]

well i speak english................... and a bit of french and indonesian. I can understand a bit of spanish and latin as well! Oh and i can speak double dutch and pigeon english! im also fluent in farm animal dialect! are you?


you speak pigeon?? how cool! i used to speak it once upon a time! say something!!

i cant speak any chinese...i can only speak australian! anyone wanna teach me chinese? :cry:

[murray]

I am australian, but have studied mandarin for 4 years, and studied a little cantonese too. Lately, have been writing characters for 5 hours a day - trying to increase vocab...

[Jay_072]

i can speak Canto...i understand canto 90% but i dont know very much about mando ^^

[vashdestampede]

yupyup....being able to speak pigeon is good cos then you can have them do your bidding

i was born here
speak a lil of mandarin and cantonese
but not enough to actually understand what i hear, or what i say

however...if i listen to a song long enough...i can understand it
(or at least make it up enough so it sounds right to me)

and where did all these australian newbies come from¿
really...it's like...an invasion and it scares me...

[murray]

and where did all these australian newbies come from¿
really...it's like...an invasion and it scares me...

I think Jay has that effect on people..., I think his music is better than most english artists these days..., so many music label generated 'singers' with no talent releasing crap song after song...

[swtaznkandi]

mando. i think of my "lao jia" as beijing, which i FINALLY visited this summer. yay!

[aznsweet_sakura]

im actually australian coz i was born here but i can speak canto fluentlyand a bit of mando im still learning it........TT__TT :wave:...im getting there...i fink...its soo hard to read and rite chinese..tho speaking can be difficult....but speaking canto is easier :D :tongue:

[jay_chou_]

I speak canto mainly, but I understand and speak a little mando too :wink2:

[xinerz]

i speak mando, but i really realy wanna learn canto!! one of my friends speaks both, and when he switches to canto to talk to his rents ... i'm just SOOO fascinated!!

[bonyka]

i can speak canto an mando, but not very well. just ordinary conversation only.

[Winston]

i'm a fluent speaker in cantonese, and i was born in australia.

[llyuN^tIngll]

umMmm....i can speak fluent canto......~
and i know some mando but very little T.T

[xahjayx1031]

oohh!! i can speak canto fluently and mando not as fluently but still a little.....i cant really read and write b4 but now i can coz of jay!!! i can just read his song titles and voila! copy them over and over again and memorise them....lol i kno im weird but im gonna go to chinese school soon!! i really really want to learn how to read and write chinese

[13abygirl]

lol i speak cantonese & toishanese, yea... im from toishan. but i can speak mando & currently taking chinese as a foreign language in hs. after i become realli fluent in these dialects i wanna learn fujianese but it seems realli hard..

[susuballs]

i'm from shanghai except i dont speak shanghainese...i understand it though
so i only can speak mandarine.

trying to learn cantonese though...

[Kellie]

hey! im canto! nice to meet ya! :-P but i speak mandarin as well so yeh...good to know jay fans hia! great place eh?

[Got Tofu?]

Harlo`z .. Canto speaker here; From HK and would like to revisit HK next year to see Disneyland! =)

[~ChinGLiSh<33]

my family came from hong kong. i know some cantonese. i'm learning mandarin. my chinese stinks. hence my screenname.

it's really hard to practice cuz there's so many manda speakers in my area and not enuff canto speakers. and the ones who CAN speak canto stink more than me.

[strawberri]

kekeke, imma born in australia and i speak chinglish ^^ !!~
its annoying, especially when i get stuck on words! i understand everything ppl say in cantonese but i just get stuck on words. and mandarin i understand and only speak little of it, but all is coooL. my reading writing skills suck since i quit chinese school.

[tomiko]

i speak mandarin...but i'm not very good at it haha. i can't read at all because i only went to chinese school for less than a year when i was 5. although i can read some basic characters that i learned from taking japanese. my comprehension of mandarin is okay, but i don't think i speak very well. i often start stuttering because i get self conscious about my accent. i'm learning korean right now...pretty decent at it so far lol.

[lil~jo]

hey, I'm born in NZ

so english is my first language.

canto is my second, and I guess manderin is my third.

I used to speak more canto than manderin, at present I guess I speak canto at home and manderin with my taiwanese friends....
(can read and write a lil)
*should mention my manderin vocab is a bit bigger than my canto now.
though in both language I can communicate fluently.
=)

[aniTa]

hi ppl!
I was born in Aus but I'm Chinese/Laotian!
i can speak Canto n a bita mando!!!
my 1st language is english too, 2nd is canto, 3rd is Laotian and then ne other languages i noe how to speak!

[ViBi]

well.. i speak canto lor...... thats cos i grew up in hk mah... but i do mando as well.. and currently learning jap.. go the multi linguals!!

[white angel]

i'm mando... but i can understand a little bit of cantonese...>>

[sweetty]

original speaking mando.. but since i got a lot canto fd.. so now i could understand canto n speak a lil of it.. but most of time i speak eng to my fd.. >_<

[sweetzmelly]

Hey all! I can understand cantonese but I'm not going speaking it fluently. I gotta think for a bit to say stuff. It's more like broken cantonese. I usually mix cantonese and english together. I never thought of learning mandarin b/c I know I still have to master cantonese. However, ever since being in love with Jay, it's one of my goals to know mandarin!!!

[Winston]

Speaking of mando, i'm learning it at Uni, it's so different, i'm a really fluent cantonese (thank god for TVB videos :D) speaker, but i just never spoke so formally like mando speakers do. It feels weird speaking formal chinese.

[perfectionist]

I speak both =]

Can understand pretty well but my writing skills are poor =(

I was from NANNING, Guangxi China!!!

[rainbowseason]

i'm both ^o^
i grow up learning both so i'm pretty good with speaking and listenng
but i forgot how to read or write anymore

[Slowpoke99]

Hi everyone, long time reader, first time poster. :shiny:
I am a white aussie, thats WHITE. But I've been learning mando in school for about 8 1/2 years, and I have very little to show for it. :sweat:
Even tho mando is fun, and easy, I kinda wish I had been doing canto, because I think it sounds a whole lot better. But then again, white guys trying to speak chinese always looks stupid :prop:

[Darkshrimp]

i can speak mando :P but i really want to learn canto tho, coz i want to wath da initial D movie :P but canto is jsut oo hards..

[Winston]

i can speak mando :P but i really want to learn canto tho, coz i want to wath da initial D movie :P but canto is jsut oo hards..

yeah i think it's a little hard to learn canto... i speak canto, but i'm learning mando now, lol i mean the transition is fine,

this is how i see it canto -> mando = changing from slang speaking to formalised speaking
and mando is changing from formal speaking to the more slang speaking, i mean u can obviously convert from mando to canto and speak the same, however, half the canto speakers wouldn't be use to how you speak. Furthermore apparently there's more tones in canto as opposed to the 4 main tones in mando.

[liwei_jay]

i think both also got it's diff anf easy side...
i can speak both canto and mando..
but more fluent in canto lo.. :wink2:
i juz recently learn mando...
it's easy if u keep watchin mando series and listen to Jay's songs... :blush:
sigh.. what will happen if i dun hav Jay... :hehe:
anyway... i heard the initial d will hv two version..
one's mando n one's on canto depends on ur country.. :-)

[Darkshrimp]

i think both also got it's diff anf easy side...
i can speak both canto and mando..
but more fluent in canto lo.. :wink2:
i juz recently learn mando...
it's easy if u keep watchin mando series and listen to Jay's songs... :blush:
sigh.. what will happen if i dun hav Jay... :hehe:
anyway... i heard the initial d will hv two version..
one's mando n one's on canto depends on ur country.. :-)

seriously? so all the actors gonna act the whole thing again, speaking different language? if so..nice!!! :excited: tt would be awosome!!

[liwei_jay]

originally posted by darkshrimp
seriously? so all the actors gonna act the whole thing again, speaking different language? if so..nice!!! tt would be awosome!!

i'm not sure....
but as far as i knw is tat there will be a canto and mando version
that's all...

[Winston]

seriously? so all the actors gonna act the whole thing again, speaking different language? if so..nice!!! :excited: tt would be awosome!!

lol i don't think so, they just have replacement voices for the mando version.

[Darkshrimp]

lol i don't think so, they just have replacement voices for the mando version.

aww....tt's not cool then :P i want to hear their real voice....i'll jus teither learn canto really fast or read the subtitle:P

[jAYcHOus#1 fAN]

MANDO!! but i really wanna learn canto cause iono....cause this guy i like is a canto fob and yep..and i think i jus sounds cool too. oh yah i from taiwan. understand a lil taiwanese. thats all

[Winston]

I actually haven't seen many places teaching canto, i think it would be so difficult to teach.

[pinkfireworks]

I learn Mandarin and speak it. :happy: But I'd really love to learn Canto! :tongue:

[liliceprincess]

i am more madarin than canto...my mother is more taiwanese...but mainly speak chinese...and my father is canto...and i mainly originated from taiwan....

[Enchantress_Mi]

i speak cantonese yeah i can understand mandarine but i can;'t only speak little bit of it so sad but yeah most of my family can only speak canto ........ only the adult in my family know mandarine

[jacktheripper]

i speak cantonese and im trying to learn mandarin now..i was born in wellington, nz but parents from hongkong.

[kay_kay]

i mainly speak canto at home.. but i can speak mando too.. and my dad is malaysian chinese, my mum is from hk.. hehe ^^

[weirdbutthead]

i speak both languages.. n im from m'sia!! hehehehe

[P.e.A.n.u.T]

i speak mando with my parents and love to watch taiwan's entertainment news..hehhe..understand cantoa little bit..not much actuallyy..^^

[Antz]

I don't speak them. =( I speak another dialect, Teochew. I know that my granddad is from the east... or west... I can't remember, haha. My mum knows Cantonese and Mandarin though.

[Joanna]

I'm Taiwanese and Hongkie. I can speak Mandarin fluently but bits of Cantonese and Hakka. I wanna know more Cantonese though it's cool hehe.

[poorlostsoul]

I am a very rare breed of giraffe who can speak mandarin and looks like a human, i have develped a skill over the millions of years i've been alive that allows me to type with my tongue. i also breathe thru my ears.
A bunch of children found me living under a tree and thought i was a goddess and worshipped me from then on...:bow: :tongue:

uhh that freaked me out...lolz

anywayz i speak mando and shang
[shang=shanghainese]

i am therefore from shanghai :rasp:

[latte777]

I speak mandarin to my dad. He's originally from China, but moved to Indonesia since his twenties. I can understand bits of cantonese and hokkien.. =)

It would be nice if i know more cantonese. All i know are the dim sum names. Hahaha.

[HekToZ]

Uhhh, well I speak unfluent Cantonese, I kinda learnt how to read and write. By that I mean I know how to write my own name. I can kinda make out the link between some words in Mandarin --> Cantonese but thats about it. -_-

[jessiesoon]

i am from msia..i speaks canto and mando..hehe!!
i nv study chinese b4..but i can type the chinese characters,not write..

[souLvamP]

i'm not really good at canto or mando, but i learnt for several years -__-. i actually speak chieu chow most fluently. i was born in australia but my mother came from canton, its a place in the countru in guangzhou. almost everyone speaks chieu chow there.

[MeGal]

Mandarin for me..but I can understand Cantonese! Most of it anyway...I think..... =P I am from Singapore by the way, but living in Perth now. Picked up Cantonese when I came to Perth.

[zhoudaoyan]

Well i speak mando.

my parents and relatives can all speak canto and mando though.

[cheryl_jay]

well i mainly speak cantonese..
my mandarin's not very good.. really hope to improve it so it'll be easier to understand jay's songs and things he say!! :D

[Cai_Niao]

I speak mando along with a few words of canto (mainly swearing in canto lol) But i speak mando fluentily. I was born in Shenyang, thats up the north(in china for all those who were just born yesterday) And moved to Aus when i was 11 yayyy

[j.C.t]

i was born in australia. my parents are from cambodia. my mother tongue is teochiu-hokkien but i learnt canto from watching tv and i study mando at school.

[kikikaka]

n.. me mando here..as my parents are mandarine ppl.. though i speak english with friends... lol... . but can speak some canto.. not as fruently as the real canto ppl... but still can understand.i only say it when i have to..
there were so many cantos in my high school, but wen u go to uni..there are sort like an eqaul amount of mando and canto here... o i dont no now..

[pinkfireworks]

I was born in China and I moved here when I was three. I can speak Mandarin, I wish I could speak Canto too.

[Darkshrimp]

same, canto seems so cool and most of my friends speak it. It's so hard to learn as well, well, for me atleast

[Yue Anne]

i am chinese, and i speak cantonese, lols my mandarin, erm oh well lets not talk about that, :whistle:, mandarin is a beautiful language, but i find it hard to learn, lol
, but i have been practising alot though. hehe ^.^

[crazygiggles13]

well...i speak canto so i like that..but i wish i could speak mando..but it is reali hard to learn..and then wen i cant remember the mando word for it i just slip in a little canto..hehe..i dont reali get away with it tho..altho i haf on a couple of occasions hehe :D

[ic3e]

lols~~ i was born here (syd, aus) but i speak canto [though i cant read or write... (much)] buttt im learning mando.. and since most of my friends are shang or taiwanese... understanding abit more =)

[Beryl-Luv-Jay]

hm...i'm originally chinese !! i can speak cantonese fluently !! I'm a Malaysian Chinese !

[dude000]

well im canto, and born in australia, sydney, i wish i was borned in either taiwan, china or hong kong

[jay_ch0u027]

i can speak mando..buh none of my friends speak it.. >.< and at home everyone speaks english..so0o now.. im forgeting most of my chinese >.< o wellz..

[totallyforever5]

i'm born in Malaysia i cant speak mandarin but i can understand and speak a little of it i am lousy in it yeah but i can speak cantonese and of course i undertand it

[PingPong700]

I was born in Singapore, but i speak cantonese pretty fluently because we lived in HK for a while, but now I'm learning Mandarin =)

[Winston]

cantoooooooo woohoo lol, i think i like canto more cause i can swear better in it lol

[Bubble]

i'm canto but cant speak it.....born in hk but raised in Aussie....lol

[Darkshrimp]

lately, i've found canto to be very nice..and would love to learn it :P would be aweosme if anyone can teach me!

[Winston]

lately, i've found canto to be very nice..and would love to learn it :P would be aweosme if anyone can teach me!

lol, it's not that easy to teach anyone.

There's formal canto, and slang canto, slang canto to me, is canto which often can't be expressed in writing, because many of the characters don't exist.

Apparently there's 8 tones in canto, i'm not sure, lol since i grew up speaking it.

[Darkshrimp]

8 tones :| wow...mando only have 4..that would double my vocab list :| wow...

[black shinigami]

I know like..one swear word in canto. lol. It'd be fun to learn sometimes though. I can speak poor mando.

[hellokitty]

i am fluent at mando..:P..came to Australia when i was 5...was born in China, Nanjing...dont know any canto ><

i reckon mando is way easier to learn than canto..to me, all cantonese sound similar..with the same accent thingy...ok...maybe thats just me

[kyoote88]

i'm canto (honkie) but i also know some mando. I find mando songs better than canto songs sometimes, it just sounds better and especially jay's songs!

[NovemberRain]

I can speak Mandarin!! But not the usual Mandarin... I speak the NooB Mandarin :brows: which means I'm not very fluent, but I use Mandarin to speak with my family members and friends.

I understand Cantonese and can speak a bit of it...

I should improve my chinese!
My God how can a chinese speak his mother language so poorly? I feel so ashamed of myself :blush: I also don't know how to read chinese ><

[-vIt-]

I'm mando, but sometimes i really want to learn canto, HK people are really cool! The only word i know in cantonese is diao lol which is a swear word
but 8 tones to learn.. uhh.. a bit hard

[princess`bobo]

i'm a mandarin lol...but i can understand canto...i just dont speak it cos i reckon my pronounciation is way off!

i didnt ever used to understand canto, but when ur around ur bf, his friends and family for 3 years and they all speak canto...u kinda pick it up!

[lidooL-saRah]

im a canto speaker.. but im not that good x]
i can understand more then i can speak . kinda weird haha.
but sometimes my frend talks realy realy fast and i can't understand her =S

[dondon]

i cna only speak canto .. xD... and my mummy comes from hongkong which makes me hongkong! =P

[-vIt-]

how come most people i know in aus,
they're usually from hongkong
two of my friends are cantonese speakers -but one of them can speak both

[shez]

most people in england speak cantonese and use traditional chinese characters but i personally speak mandarin but i can understand a little cantonese due to the fact that i have many canto friends

[minty]

i speak canto...born in HK like my parents...most of my friends that r chinese are from hk too...its funny how that most of the ppl we know here used 2 liv in da same area where we used 2 liv in hk---wat a coincidence!!!

[Grudge_Boy]

I'm mando. the only canto i know how to say is that 'i like your shoes, where did u get them from?"... yes very useful.

[Stevenz]

I'm mando too.. i speak mandarin at home and sometimes i speak cantonese with my frens.. guess how i get to learn canto? coz i watched tvb drama since i was a kid.. :)

[avanowscar]

I'm from HK and I speak Canto. =D
I tried learning Mandarin ages ago but it was too hard so I gave up.. Currently learning Japanese.

[tenshi_dew]

I'm canto and my parents came from HK but I was born in Australia. I can speak canto pretty well, but I'm also learning mando. But I'm learning the simplified version so everytime I go back to HK, there are some words I can't read.

[fiionahsz__]

im was born in melbourne, my parents are viet, and i speak canto ! :]

[xiaojielun]

i'm from hong kong so i speak canto
but thats not all :-) i can listen to mando too
for some reason when people meet me and find out that i'm from aussie that straight away think i'm a banana-boy and dunno any chinese and although my expression probably doesnt show it but i get really pissed off when people think that about me

[ssejy_kun]

i was born in Aus but i can speak Canto okay-ish. and my great great great........ grandparents are from Hainan and Canton.

for some reason when people meet me and find out that i'm from aussie that straight away think i'm a banana-boy and dunno any chinese and although my expression probably doesnt show it but i get really pissed off when people think that about me
omg. it's like the total opposite for me. Like, nobody really cares where i was born (in Aust, or China, or even Japan or whatever), but they all automatically assume i can speak like 5 billion languages, "oh, can you speak chinese and japanese and thai and korean and blah blah blah..." and i'm like... BUT I CAN ONLY SPEAK CANTO SO GET OFF MY BACK BEFORE I BITE YOUR FACE OFF!!!! And my chinese friends say to me "if you don't speak madaring, then you don't speak Chinese. Mandarin is Chinese, and Canto is crap... blah blah blah" GO DIE IN A HOLE!!!:rasp:
*sigh* thus ends my rant

[moemoe]

same for me, like who cares where i was born, people expect me to know chinese.. and its the same for my friends, most people i know can speak either cantonese, mandarin or both xD

for me, its mandarin but i must admit im not that good. my listening skills are much better then my speaking skills. oh well, i try.. btw, im learning japanese too =D haha

[azianbimbo]

i was born in Aus but i can speak Canto okay-ish. and my great great great........ grandparents are from Hainan and Canton.
omg. it's like the total opposite for me. Like, nobody really cares where i was born (in Aust, or China, or even Japan or whatever), but they all automatically assume i can speak like 5 billion languages, "oh, can you speak chinese and japanese and thai and korean and blah blah blah..." and i'm like... BUT I CAN ONLY SPEAK CANTO SO GET OFF MY BACK BEFORE I BITE YOUR FACE OFF!!!! And my chinese friends say to me "if you don't speak madaring, then you don't speak Chinese. Mandarin is Chinese, and Canto is crap... blah blah blah" GO DIE IN A HOLE!!!:rasp:
*sigh* thus ends my rant


LOl..i know aye.~..theres always that debate bout.."aww mando is beta".or "nonono canto..is wayyy beter."..lol...never ending..

but anyways..im mando~..and i also speak this village language of my own~.ahaha..so when i talk to my sis or something..i mix english/mando/the other village language...ahah..which is quite werid. :whistle:


lol..bite your face off :? :? hahaha :whistle: wow

same for me, like who cares where i was born, people expect me to know chinese.. and its the same for my friends, most people i know can speak either cantonese, mandarin or both xD
for me, its mandarin but i must admit im not that good. my listening skills are much better then my speaking skills. oh well, i try.. btw, im learning japanese too =D haha

hey cools..youre learning Jap as wells..hehe..me too..well.actually i quit..i went to the OPEN HIGH SCHOOL for lik 1 and half year..aha..my my Jap serzly crap..cant keep up..too lazy..hehe.


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[jimbo614]

i'm mando, from shanghai, if i dunt understand mando it would be hard 4 me to enjoy jay's music ><

[Ginuwine]

well i speak canto, but im learning mando as well. its really important to learn mainland's language.

[X_LISTEN_X]

I'm a guy form HK born in Canada, but i was raised to speack cantonese and sicne i've been spending tiem with taiwanese people i've been learnign how to speak both taiwanese and manderian haha

[Austin]

i am a canto speaker. going to learn mando soon i hope. xD i was born in the US but im of chinese/vietnamese origin. i dont know if its hk or taiwan. 0_0

[rsngdmns]

woah...tons of canto speakers. that's crazy. most people i know who are chinese speak mandarin. i have a few canto friends who can only speak canto but understand a bit of mandarin. i'm the opposite of them. i speak mandarin fluently, and i can understand the fuzhou dialect (cuz that's my hometown). i'm also learning to understand cantonese from a couple of my friends.

[azianbimbo]

lol..wah..GO all you people learning mando! (wootwoot!)..haha..

well..you guys can always ask me for assistance..lol...of course thats only IF NECCESSARY..lol..cus.my mando..is...quite...good

[EricOng]

Okay,
I'm from Penang, Malaysia.
Penang is well I could say a place that has the most majority Chinese in Malaysia.
Most of my Chinese friends doesn't understand or neither speak mando (its called Chinese now) since we're from an English-educated medium.
We usually communicate in Hokkien and English.
Hokkien has always been a widely spoken dialect in Penang and I do not deny that other minority dialects such as Cantonese and Teochew. I do have a few Cantonese friends too.
I understand and could speak in canto prety well (I learned it through TVB dramas from Hong Kong)

According to Wikipedia:
# This usually refers to Standard Mandarin, which is the standard spoken form of the Chinese language officially recognized by in the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China and the Republic of Singapore, and is the spoken form of Chinese most commonly taught as a foreign language.

# The term can also refer to Standard Cantonese, especially when used in the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau in the People's Republic of China.

# This can also be used as a collective term that refers to all spoken and writen variants of the Chinese language.

But personally, I would think that Chinese language resembles Mandarin. Though I guess you guys know that mandarin is not recognized anymore (Chinese now). Cantonese isn't Chinese. And if Cantonese IS Chinese, doesn't that mean that Hokkien, Teochew, Hakka, etc. Chinese also?

Chinese is a language.
Cantonese remains a dialect.

Anyway, I'm planning to take Chinese as my third language as I am a Chinese myself.

[lornac1208]

My family orginated from Canton, so I speak Cantonese! :-) Now if only i could mangage to speak in Mandarin or at least understand it.... It's annoying if I can't understand what Jay is saying without translation!!!!! :oops:

[canuck_girl39]

My family also originates from Canton... so I speak Cantonese... though not extremely well because I'm a banana born in Canada. XD

But for some reason I prefer to listen to Mandarin music... I hardly have any Canto on my iPod! Jay all the way =)

[Mesmerized Memories]

I'm CANTONESE and proud to be http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y33/Si2ta-/Onions/mwahaha.gif
My friends and I had a debate... about which language was more popular http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y33/Si2ta-/Onions/XD.gif and CANTONESE won of course since I was supporting it http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y33/Si2ta-/Onions/mwahaha.gif

Hey~ i've got an idea =] how about i make a poll! Ah such a good idea http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y33/Si2ta-/Onions/thumbsup.gif