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| onebir Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7165 days ago 487 posts - 503 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin | Message 17 of 17 25 April 2010 at 4:04pm | IP Logged | ||
I lived in Kunming for 8 months a few years ago. Quite a lot of people can speak fairly standard mandarin, if they want to. But: 1) even when they want to speak mandarin, many people mix in words/tones from their preferred dialect to some extent (mapu/suliao putonghua) 2) opportuntities for listening comprehension practice on people in public places (aka eavesdropping) are limited because so many people speak in dialect(s) 3) if you're with a group of chinese who share another home dialect, they'll often revert to it (unless they're used to speaking mandarin to each other). The Yunnan dialect is closer to mandarin than many others, but Chinese is hard enough without any added confusion. For language purposes I'd stick with the North or North-East. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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