If you are fluent in Mandarin Chinese, can you read a text written by a Cantonese Chinese speaker?

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If you are fluent in Mandarin Chinese, can you read a text written by a Cantonese Chinese speaker?
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Most Cantonese speaker will write in standard written Chinese is which is based on Mandarin. This is the case of most Hong-Kong newspapers. Some texts are written based on Cantonese with some characters which a specifically Cantonese, but you should be able to understand most of it with the mandarin knowledge.

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