Originally Posted by
lkfmdc
I will say this (these?)
1. Learning standard chinese in an academic situation may not prepare you for kung fu talk
2. Learning kung fu talk probably won't prepare you for regular conversations
Dialects and regional variations can be a b
itch
CTS spoke Toisanese, I speak a more standard Cantonese, had trouble talking to a guy from Jungsaan
My Mandarin has cantonese accent and Shanghai variations/vocab (long story), it was great in Shanghai, with Taiwanese we frequently kept saying "what?"
My Shanghai is actually Ningpo... I sound like Chiang Kai Shek
It's a maze, a trecherous maze
I'm playing it safe and just using the Commie official version.
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