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bohan2007
Posted on: Lessons Per Week
October 31, 2012 at 12:50 PMI think it's a misleading Wikipedia article. I'm not sold
Posted on: Lessons Per Week
October 31, 2012 at 7:16 AMnot what I was told by my Chinese teacher in China.
Basically, I suspect that it's a huge misconception that Putonghua is the dialect of Beijing. Beijing has a separate dialect than Putonghua. In fact, some Putonghua speakers from Beijing mispronounce lots of sounds in Putonghua, such as the 'w' pinyin sound.
I'm totally willing to think differently on this, if someone can offer some info that goes against what I've written.
Posted on: Lessons Per Week
October 30, 2012 at 1:03 PMthe Beijing dialect is neither Putonghua, nor is it necessarily intelligeable to non-Beijing Putonghua speakers
Posted on: Lessons Per Week
October 29, 2012 at 12:24 PMalright, well, pretty much everything you just wrote is news to me.
I still don't really agree with what John said about 汉语/Mandarin being the language of Beijing. I'd still like an explanation on this by someone, preferably John himself because he said it
Posted on: Lessons Per Week
October 28, 2012 at 11:34 AMI went to the Wikipedia page. It says that 汉语 is the same as 中文。I'm not sure if that's right. Maybe it is, I'm not sure
Posted on: Lessons Per Week
October 28, 2012 at 11:32 AMalso, you're saying that Mandarin is different that 汉语？
Posted on: Lessons Per Week
October 28, 2012 at 11:32 AMso you're saying that Mandarin is different than Putonghua?
Posted on: Lessons Per Week
October 28, 2012 at 7:34 AMI have a question about what John said at about 6 minutes and 50 seconds into this lesson.
He said that 汉语 is the language of Beijing. From what I understand, Beijing has a dialect that's different than 汉语, so I'm not sure why John and many others say that 汉语 is the language of Beijing. Also, from what I understand, 汉语 is technically not the language of any single part of China. So, for example, Cantonese(粤语) is the language of people from Guangdong, and Hong Kong, because Cantonese is the dialect of that region. Mandarin(汉语), however, isn't the local dialect of any part of China; it's a language that was originally made from several northern dialects and currently serves as the common language for Chinese people.
I would be interested in hearing John, and other people's comments about this subject, particularly what I wrote above.
Posted on: Increase and Decrease, Rise and Fall
October 27, 2012 at 5:28 AMmy paid account recently expired. I used to be able to download Qingwens on Chinesepod's culture show feed on Itunes. That feed hasn't been working for a while now
Posted on: The Price of Marriage
November 2, 2012 at 12:00 PMmultiple effect? I don't understand. What do you mean?