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| Oheao Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 4169 days ago 31 posts - 33 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Mandarin, Greek | Message 9 of 12 29 October 2013 at 1:11am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
Well, 4 of them are Indo-European. You speak Shanghainese? Very interesting! I only know one other person that can. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| cacue23 Triglot Groupie Canada Joined 4300 days ago 89 posts - 122 votes  Speaks: Shanghainese, Mandarin*, English Studies: Cantonese | Message 10 of 12 29 October 2013 at 10:10pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
Hey, your 4 languages are from 4 different families. Well yeah, Shanghainese is supposedly my "mother tongue", since my mom speaks it. But I use Mandarin almost exclusively at school and only use Shanghainese when I talk to my mom. I find myself unable to use those expressions that are uniquely Shanghainese. What I do is that I use Mandarin expressions but pronouce it in the Shanghainese way, which is very weird to native Shanghainese speakers. I wish I could learn some "authentic" Shanghainese, but there sadly aren't many books on the intermediate and advanced levels nowadays. Most people who learn Shanghainese are only doing so because they live in Shanghai and they want to be able to have everyday conversations with locals, if they want to have professional conversations, they switch to Mandarin. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Oheao Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 4169 days ago 31 posts - 33 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Mandarin, Greek | Message 11 of 12 30 October 2013 at 12:57am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
Yeah, the one person that I knew was from Shanghai, so I guess that makes sense. I'm learning Mandarin, because that's the most spoken variety, and I want to go to Beijing. I wanted to learn Cantonese before too, but I'm not sure I could handle bot traditional and simplified Chinese characters. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| cacue23 Triglot Groupie Canada Joined 4300 days ago 89 posts - 122 votes Speaks: Shanghainese, Mandarin*, English Studies: Cantonese | Message 12 of 12 30 October 2013 at 6:31am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
I personally could never understand why people make things so hard by having two writing systems. In my case, I learned the simplified version. As of the traditional writing system, I could recognize the characters out of familiarity, but I never learned to write them. Don't know how non-native speakers could handle two writing systems. I could advice you to stick to one system for now, but you have your own way of learning. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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