Non-Mandarin Chinese

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1. Cantonese !! 1 2 3 4 8

   By skylee, January 19, 2005 at 12:49 PM
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   • 陳德聰
   • July 9, 2016 at 02:25 AM

2. Vietnamese Relationship with Chinese Languages 1 2 3 4 7

   By opper567, August 10, 2005 at 06:29 PM
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   • papen
   • July 3, 2012 at 01:26 PM

3. Compounds (辭) vs. Characters (字) and the need to preserve the latter 1 2 3 4 6

   By Mark Yong, November 20, 2011 at 01:00 PM
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   • Mark Yong
   • February 6, 2012 at 12:17 AM

4. Tangent Constructed Chinese 1 2 3 4 6

   By Hwong_DsiKiem, December 5, 2013 at 12:32 PM
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   • Hwong_DsiKiem
   • July 17, 2014 at 07:52 AM

5. Is it worth it to learn Cantonese or is it a dying language? 1 2 3 4 5

   By China_Checker, March 23, 2014 at 11:38 PM
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   • Zhenxing Lu
   • May 28, 2020 at 05:07 AM

6. what's the best dialect to learn after mandarin? 1 2 3 4 5

   By Smoothie, March 28, 2004 at 06:15 PM
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   • mun
   • July 20, 2004 at 12:40 AM

7. Best Cantonese pronunciation system 1 2 3 4

   By Amdir_Flassion, July 7, 2004 at 01:41 PM
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   • Guest
   • August 23, 2004 at 06:45 PM

8. Mandarin or Chinese? 1 2 3 4

   By malanting, June 6, 2012 at 08:34 AM
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   • RedCloud
   • July 17, 2012 at 02:17 AM

9. Pro-Cantonese Protest in Guangzhou 1 2 3 4

   By WilsonFong, July 26, 2010 at 04:53 AM
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   • MakMak
   • August 10, 2010 at 10:01 PM

10. My Taiwanese (Hokkien) adventure. From zero to fluency. 1 2 3 4

    By mandarynski, September 23, 2014 at 08:53 PM
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    • Michaelyus
    • March 11, 2019 at 05:47 PM

11. Length-based Cantonese Romanisation 1 2 3 4

    By ParkeNYU, February 6, 2015 at 10:26 PM
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    • ParkeNYU
    • April 11, 2015 at 08:17 PM

12. Non-Chinese Cantonese speakers 1 2 3

    By wannabeafreak, October 12, 2006 at 09:31 PM
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    • xieco
    • December 7, 2008 at 05:42 PM

13. How hard is Cantonese? 1 2 3

    By Hwong_DsiKiem, December 6, 2013 at 05:16 PM
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    • querido
    • January 10, 2017 at 11:34 AM

14. The Demonization of Non-Mandarin Sinitic Language 1 2 3

    By green40, August 10, 2010 at 05:16 PM
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    • MakMak
    • August 15, 2010 at 10:04 PM

15. Taiwan-ji 1 2 3

    By pazu, November 18, 2003 at 11:08 PM
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    • ala
    • April 19, 2004 at 12:32 PM

16. Dialect Usage around China 1 2 3

    By Takeshi, April 23, 2013 at 12:15 AM
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    • OneEye
    • July 18, 2013 at 12:22 AM

17. hakka in vietnam 1 2 3

    By zomis93, April 18, 2010 at 05:17 AM
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    • nep
    • July 9, 2022 at 05:19 PM

18. 10 most difficult dialects 1 2 3

    By Ian_Lee, October 18, 2006 at 02:31 AM
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    • XiongNu
    • April 3, 2013 at 04:57 PM

19. Thoughts on Cantonese? 1 2 3

    By PRLDynasty424, December 13, 2020 at 12:49 AM
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    • 黄有光
    • March 28, 2022 at 07:32 AM

20. Putonghua-ization or Cantonization in Guangdong? 1 2 3

    By Ian_Lee, February 14, 2007 at 02:09 AM
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    • Mark Yong
    • March 24, 2007 at 07:11 AM

21. an end to dialects? 1 2 3

    By Quest, December 5, 2004 at 06:57 PM
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    • Mugi
    • December 8, 2006 at 02:05 AM

22. Mandarin - dialect ratio in dialect provinces in China 1 2 3

    By atitarev, October 17, 2005 at 07:41 AM
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    • atitarev
    • December 1, 2005 at 12:17 AM

23. Cantonese vs Mandarin in Hong Kong? 1 2 3

    By dynaemu, December 21, 2006 at 05:35 AM
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    • flameproof
    • February 4, 2007 at 11:27 AM

24. Why is "America" written "亞美利加"? 1 2 3

    By ÀiHuá, July 27, 2010 at 03:04 AM
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    • MakMak
    • August 26, 2010 at 12:35 AM

25. Can speakers of Mandarin and Cantonese understand each other 1 2 3

    By roddy, September 15, 2003 at 02:32 PM
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    • Ian_Lee
    • February 27, 2004 at 12:58 AM