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Forum: Speaking and Listening 4th February 2006, 07:57 AM

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which chinese dialect(s) do you like most?

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Posted By ala


I like Taiwan Mandarin (Guoyu), which sounds more...

I like Taiwan Mandarin (Guoyu), which sounds more natural and conversational.
Beijing Mandarin (Putonghua) sometimes sounds really pretentious in a communist/proletariat sort
of way. Hard to...



Forum: Speaking and Listening 23rd January 2006, 12:02 PM

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which chinese dialect(s) do you like most?

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Posted By ala


That's still highly speculative. Cantonese...

That's still highly speculative. Cantonese people generally have very high cheek bones (at least
relative to the rest of the Chinese population), and much of Chinese pop culture comes from Hong...



Forum: Speaking and Listening 23rd January 2006, 06:55 AM

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which chinese dialect(s) do you like most?

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Posted By ala


the "double" eyelid fold (双眼皮) being...

the "double" eyelid fold (双眼皮) being preferred is not a product of Western civilization
influences, it was preferred a thousand years ago. There are hundreds of millions of Chinese with
the...



Forum: Speaking and Listening 23rd January 2006, 01:09 AM

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which chinese dialect(s) do you like most?

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Posted By ala


they probably were arguing. :wink: shanghainese...

they probably were arguing. :wink:
shanghainese isn't known for being loud and argy bargy, it's a 吴侬软语 (wunong ruanyu)
dialect, part of the same family as suzhou-hua. in fact, shanghainese today is...



Forum: Speaking and Listening 17th January 2006, 11:53 PM

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which chinese dialect(s) do you like most?

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Posted By ala


Shanghainese is much faster than Mandarin;...

Shanghainese is much faster than Mandarin; syllable distinction is very muddled in Shanghainese,
it's much more word-based compared to other Chinese dialects. Single syllables by themselves
usually...



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