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noob.......is this mandarin? - joshg863 - 2009-12-19
I don't know enough yet to tell whats mandarin or cantonese.
http://tv.sogou.com/series/yqlklxy.html <-is that mandarin?
which one is mandarin "一起來看流星雨" or "一起来看流星雨 "?
I just started learning mandarin today.
obrigado!
noob.......is this mandarin? - trusmis - 2009-12-19
Thanks for the link! It is mandarin.
Not too early to start listening?
Boa sorte
noob.......is this mandarin? - bflatnine - 2009-12-19
joshg863 Wrote:which one is mandarin "一起來看流星雨" or "一起来看流星雨 "?They are the same. The first is Traditional Chinese and the second is Simplified (來/来 is the only difference in this sentence).
Written Chinese is generally just Chinese; it isn't Mandarin or Cantonese or any other dialect, except in rare cases (some magazines and such are published in colloquial Cantonese in Hong Kong, for example). Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, Taiwanese, etc. are all spoken languages/dialects.
Chinese can be written using either Simplified or Traditional characters. The use of one or the other doesn't change the language. Think of simplified as shorthand, or like a different font.
More liek txtspeak but lets nt get n2 dat! Lol!!
noob.......is this mandarin? - joshg863 - 2009-12-19
thank you for the prompt replies!
that was helpful.......now i know i have a lot of material to listen to while i hack away the hanzi.