Chinese languages

1．What is your first language or mother language? ( ) Vietnamese 2．How long have you been learning Chinese? ( ) 2 years on and off 3．Have you taken the HSK test? Which grade have you passed? ( ) No 4．Do you think Chinese grammar is difficult? ( ) A. Very difficult B. Difficult C. Just so so D. Not d...

actually they're officially approved as different languages but well, cantonese is a dialect and madarin is a lingual language. When you hear they speak, Cantonese and mandarin sound differently. However both share the same writing as well as grammar structure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sino...

I just read the 1st post of this page and I honestly don't like the name Annamese. Well maybe i don't know the meaning of Canton in Cantonese but at least i know the characters for An Nam (安南).　It has 2 meaning, as Vietnam always had wars, the Viet emperor wanted that name as he wanted peace for the...

Well i think it's due to Vietnamese grammar different with Chinese. If you say Vietnam, there's no meaning in Vietnamese as it's just a name. But if you say Nam Viet in Vietnamese, (Nan Yue) It means South of the Viet. If Vietnamese is a decedent of Yue, It's as meaningful as Zhong Guo (middle kingd...

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