If you plan to do business in China or with a Chinese-speaking company, then Mandarin is definitely the way to go. If, however, you plan to settle in Hong Kong, then it would be worth it to pick up Cantonese.10 août 2015
Are Mandarin and Cantonese the same language?
Mandarin and Cantonese are not mutually intelligible, meaning someone who only speaks Mandarin will generally not be able to understand Cantonese and vice versa. This is the reason why Mandarin and Cantonese are said to be two different languages rather than different dialects.
Is Cantonese or Mandarin older?
One of the main reasons Cantonese is of such interest is perhaps because it is significantly older than Mandarin. It was first recorded after the fall of the Han dynasty, around 220AD, over 2000 years ago. In contrast, Mandarin only came into being around 100 years ago.
Who speaks Cantonese?
Cantonese is spoken in the southern Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi and also in Hong Kong and Macau. Cantonese is also widely spoken by overseas Chinese all around the world with some of the largest communities in Southeast Asia.
Cantonese and Mandarin are forms of Chinese Language. Cantonese is spoken in Hong Kong, Macau, GuangZhou, and Southern parts of China in that vicinity. Mandarin is spoken in Mainland China and Taiwan. Both languages are spoken in Malaysia and Singapore.
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Who are “Chinese” Language Speakers in the United States?
million people in the United States yet the term can refer to a singular language (e.g.
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City of Seattle Top Tier Languages
2020. gada 14. nov. Considering the composition of Seattle's Chinese language users ... For oral interpretation we should include both Cantonese and Mandarin.
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DETAILED LANGUAGES SPOKEN AT HOME IN THE STATE OF
language categories of Chinese Cantonese
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Corpus-based learning of Cantonese for Mandarin speakers - John
This paper reports our experience in using a parallel corpus to teach. Cantonese a variety of Chinese spoken in Hong Kong
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Asian Specific Social Services Caregiver Support – Asian Specific
Language: Cantonese and Mandarin. • Self-Help for the Elderly's Caregiver Support Services is a social service program for the providers and caregivers of.
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Cantonese and Mandarin: Different Dialects or Different Languages?
speakers of Cantonese and Mandarin will tell you that they speak the same language. However if one speaker knows only Cantonese and the other only Mandarin
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Frequently Asked Questions Voting and Minority Languages
Yes Sacramento County Voter Registration and Elections has dedicated phone lines for voter assistance in these languages. For assistance in Chinese (Cantonese
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Quantitative Comparative Syntax on the Cantonese-Mandarin
2017. gada 18. sept. Hong Kong Cantonese Child Language Corpus. (CANCORP Lee et al. 1996)
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On the syllable-timing of Cantonese and Beijing Mandarin
English and German are typical stress- timed languages; French and Italian are typical syllable-timed languages and Japanese is a typical mora-timed language.
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On the syllable-timing of Cantonese and Beijing Mandarin
English and German are typical stress- timed languages; French and Italian are typical syllable-timed languages and Japanese is a typical mora-timed language.
Dialect MT: A Case Study between Cantonese and Mandarin
Mandarin and Cantonese are two most important dialects of Chinese The former is the national lingua franca and the latter is the most influential dialect in South China, Hong Kong and overseas The difference in between is such that mutual intelligibility is impossible
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Cantonese and Mandarin: Different Dialects or Different Languages?
speakers of Cantonese and Mandarin will tell you that they speak the same language However, if one speaker knows only Cantonese and the other only
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Cantonese - Center for Applied Linguistics
Cantonese is an official language in Hong Kong and a spoken dialect in Chinese characters and is based on Mandarin (Ager, 1998–2011) Cantonese and
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Cantonese, Mandarin and English produced by - ISCA Speech
One the one hand, although there were multitudes of studies on L2 prosody of tone language speakers, few have addressed L2 pitch range compression Since
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Corpus-based learning of Cantonese for Mandarin speakers - ERIC
Cantonese, a variety of Chinese spoken in Hong Kong, as a second language The parallel corpus consists of pairs of word-aligned sentences in Cantonese
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Pimsleur Chinese (Cantonese) - UNEP
Chinese (Cantonese) Basic Course - Level 1 Lessons 1-10 CD: Learn to Speak and Understand Cantonese Chinese with Pimsleur Language Programs
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Languages - City of Richmond
Note: Chinese languages include Cantonese, Hakka, Mandarin, Min Dong, Min Nan, Wu, Chinese, not otherwise specified, and Chinese not included
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Phonological change in Hong Kong Cantonese through language
A rather complicated scenario in terms of prestige languages occurs in Hong Kong: Cantonese, one of the major Chinese topolects, is spoken by the majority, but
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Language Modeling for Speech Recognition of Spoken Cantonese
cient amount of Cantonese text data for statistical language modeling We propose to solve the problem by translating standard Chinese text, which is relatively
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Dialect MT: A Case Study between Cantonese and Mandarin
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[PDF] Cantonese and Mandarin: Different Dialects or Different Languages?
speakers of Cantonese and Mandarin will tell you that they speak the same language However, if one speaker knows only Cantonese and the other only
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[PDF] Corpus-based learning of Cantonese for Mandarin speakers - ERIC
Keywords parallel corpus, language acquisition, Cantonese, Mandarin 1 Introduction Since its return to China in 1997, Hong Kong has received a large number
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Cantonese, Mandarin and English produced by - ISCA Speech
Pitching in tone and non tone second languages Cantonese, Mandarin and English produced by different pitch ranges for different language, and that pitch
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Dialect MT: A Case Study between Cantonese and Mandarin
High quality machine translation between two languages requires deep understanding of the intended meaning of the source language sentences, which in turn
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[PDF] Languages - City of Richmond
Note Chinese languages include Cantonese, Hakka, Mandarin, Min Dong, Min Nan, Wu, Chinese, not otherwise specified, and Chinese not included
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[PDF] The Cantonese Linguicide: A Study of Prospective Language Death
one common dialect, Mandarin As a result, this has led to a decrease in the speakers of the many dialects that make up the Chinese language as a whole
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