Lesson Comments
@ james002219111 I agree that Canto sounds way cooler than Mando - I want to learn it too - but no one can seem to agree on just how many tones it h... Read more
Wait, is this the ending? I have seen it indicated by Matt and I think somewhere else that this is the ending, but it didn't feel like an ending... Read more
Well... I live in Guangzhou and the people here are pretty stubborn about Cantonese as well. It pretty much gets crammed down your throat by the local... Read more
light487, The basic rule is that (1) er-hua is typically added to nouns (e.g. 画画儿 but not 画儿画, because the first 画 is a verb and the second 画 is... Read more
Mark, Maybe " silent e 's" are ninjafied? :) Read more
@james002219111, I wouldn't say the Shanghai dialect is going extinct, but it's definitely going through a decline largely due to demographic chang... Read more
orangina, I checked with Wikipedia to confirm my answer to your question (Wikipedia's linguistic info is quite good), and I'll just quote them on... Read more
so the Shanghai dialect is going extinct, is it? Do most Shanghai people know that? Is the local government doing anything to preserve the Shanghai di... Read more
A snippet from Wiki-pedia: Prior to the introduction of Hanyu Pinyin , the province was known as Kwangtung Province . One should note t... Read more
That's 'cos it's a CPod ending. ;) Read more