On 8/18/07, Vitaliy <spam@maksimov.org> wrote:
> Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> > If you do not understand Chinese (WH Tan and I can),
>
> Cantonese or Mandarin?

Cantonese is a dialect of Chinese. Mandarin is kind of the standard
Chinese. It is based on the spoken language of North China.

I can understand Hokkien (spoken in Taiwan, South Fujian,
Singapore and part of Malaysia) and Cantonese (spoken in
Hong Kong, West Guangdong and part of Malaysia)
but so-so at speaking them. Many over-sea Chinese are
originally from Fujian and GuangDong province so they
bring this two dialects to their new host countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokkien
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_%28linguistics%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoken_Chinese

Regards,
Xiaofan
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