Today I heard that Cantonese and Mandarin are totally different

>>79132744
>It is true?
No

>>79132909
sorry, but you are spanish, therefore your opinion is invalid by default

>>79132992
>Says a non-country
if you are so retarded to think that English and French have more relation than the different dialects of Chinese, I can do nothing more.

>>79132744
yep

when people say CHINESE language they usually mean mandarin.

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>>79132744
>>79133107
>French and English
are in the same indo-european family right?

Let just say both Cantonese and Mandarin speakers can read and write Chinese.

OTOH, you can pronounce Chinese word in Cantonese, Mandarin, Shanghainese, Hakka and Japanese etc etc.

< case in point

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>>79134721
Chinese is a written language.
Cantonese and Mandarin are spoken languages.
IMHO

>>79132744
My penis is very hard

>>79135949
I trust you because you are from Canada so you must be a chink.

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>>79135949

>>79132744
I'm chinese in France and yes it's very different. There are several languages in China complety inintelligible. That's why Mandarin exists.

I am chinese, no, they are not separate languages

>>79138286
Next you tell me that you can understand Wenzhounese ?
Go back to sleep

>>79138443
i will tell you i speak wu but i will not however sleep

>>79135949
Written language implies it's the written form of a language that exists but no chinese language exists

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Can you read Chinese?

>>79135949
Is it a good idea to learn Mandarin?

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>>79142315
If you need to do business with them.
They will find it amusing, like talking horse.