Cantonese/Mandarin Differences

demonstrating how cantonese and mandarin dialect are different from each other.

NOTE: Yes I am Chinese. I am a native speaker in Cantonese and I studied Mandarin for four years now.

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Entertainment

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• cantonese
• mandarin
• chinese
• differences
• dialect
• 廣東話
• 普通話
• 中國語

[Sluggo552]

you have a chinky eye

[daredevil335619]

@Sluggo552 cuz im asian

[woodloneboy]

when i speak cantonese i say "doh tzay" for thank you

[daredevil335619]

@woodloneboy You say that when someone do something for you like buying a gift or giving you money etc.

[twinqletwinqle]

Looks like they're different languages not dialects.

[harmonyordie]

@teateatheman

No, the portugese translation is from the Chinese word "官話" which means official language. A simple evidence which can prove this word has nothing to do with Manchus is that the word "Mandrim" already appeared in the book "De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas", and this book was published decades before the Manchus took over China.

[teateatheman]

@harmonyordie ! Could you cite the origin of this Portuguese (loan) word "mandarim" ? Your source may have placed it in the wrong century ! Yes ! Mandarin does mean "language of the officials" ! And Who are those officials ? 滿大人 ! Isn't Mandarim the Portugese transliteration of these 3 Chinese characters ? Are you sure Mandarin has nothing to do with Manchus ?

[duhhybrid]

y u no speak 1 dialect?

[BAIYUE1]

@hannah60000

Now, China change traditional Chinese character to easier form which is simple Chinese charater. But it is also hieroglyphic.

Are you understand?

Chinese character is hieroglyphic while Latin character is onomatopoeia.

[BAIYUE1]

@hannah60000

It is Hanzi (traditional Chinese character) . In past, even Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese also can read it ( Hanzi or traditional Chinese character ). Because Hanzi ( traditional Chinese character is hieroglyphic , so you can read it with one meaning but different voice or language.

So Cantonese and Mandarin are different language, but still can read it.

Similarly, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese and Chinese can understand each other through Hanzi if they learn it.

[hannah60000]

@BAIYUE1 My friend who has a one Mandarin parent and Cantonese parent said that the writing script is the same throughout China just read different depending where your from.

[spore637]

Actually 五 in Cantonese is pronounced ng5 but not m5

[ian27293]

@twinqletwinqle

and the japanese

[twinqletwinqle]

@ian27293 So did Vietnamese at one point.