CheeseInsider Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5123 days ago 193 posts - 238 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin* Studies: French, German
| Message 17 of 23 21 November 2010 at 2:26am | IP Logged |
jeeb wrote:
"水平 shuǐpíng (mainland) vs 程度 chéngdù (Taiwan) for level
幼兒園 yòu'éryuán (mainland) vs 幼稚園 yòuzhìyuán (Taiwan) for kindergarten"
程度(level)and 糼稚園 (kindergarten) are also used in Cantonese.
KMT people moved from Wu speaking area and Wu can be considered "Southern".
"I've met Cantonese who have grown up in the larger mainland cities, who learned Mandarin
as very young children and used it daily"
I doubt if these kind of people can be called Cantonese anymore because they might not be
able to speak Cantonese fluently. There must be some compromises in Cantonese fluency
when one speaks Mandarin daily. They always say that they don't remember how to speak
Cantonese. They have to express in Mandarin. Their next generation will probably speak no
Cantonese. The same applies to the foreign born.
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Yes, it's a sad fact that many foreign born Mainlanders learn Mandarin, even if their parents speak Cantonese. What's the loudest Chinese accent you know of? I vouch for Beijingers... ^_^
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Snowflake Senior Member United States Joined 5960 days ago 1032 posts - 1233 votes Studies: Mandarin
| Message 18 of 23 21 November 2010 at 2:56am | IP Logged |
Given the difficulty of Mandarin, the accent that I end up with is relatively unimportant... eg I really don't have a favorite accent. I try to understand all the accents that I encounter and would like to be able to comprehend any form of spoken Mandarin.
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CheeseInsider Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5123 days ago 193 posts - 238 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin* Studies: French, German
| Message 19 of 23 21 November 2010 at 3:10am | IP Logged |
Okay I see ^_^ with what regional accent are you learning to speak in?
Edit: I know you don't have a favourite, but there must be one that your methods correspond to?
Oh and that leads me to another question. What accent does everybody think are the most widely available when choosing Mandarin learning resources?
Edited by CheeseInsider on 21 November 2010 at 3:18am
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Snowflake Senior Member United States Joined 5960 days ago 1032 posts - 1233 votes Studies: Mandarin
| Message 20 of 23 21 November 2010 at 4:35am | IP Logged |
My Mandarin has a bit of a Taiwanese accent. I also tend to use Taiwanese terms. It's a reflection of my movie collection which is predominantly animated American movies dubbed for the Taiwanese market.
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Nature Diglot Groupie Canada Joined 5238 days ago 63 posts - 80 votes Speaks: English*, French
| Message 21 of 23 21 November 2010 at 6:00am | IP Logged |
My Mandarin teacher is Taiwanese yet she makes us pronounce the "er-ar" (although she does say we can pronounce it en-an) so I don't know what the hell of an accent we're learning.
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CheeseInsider Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5123 days ago 193 posts - 238 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin* Studies: French, German
| Message 22 of 23 21 November 2010 at 12:47pm | IP Logged |
Nature wrote:
My Mandarin teacher is Taiwanese yet she makes us pronounce the "er-ar" (although she does say we can pronounce it en-an) so I don't know what the hell of an accent we're learning. |
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LOL! :P
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Dr. Daneeka Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5108 days ago 6 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Mandarin
| Message 23 of 23 02 December 2010 at 12:47am | IP Logged |
My first Chinese teacher was from Jilin Province, and she always pronounced "x" like "s".
sue siao = 学校
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