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#228 - Special: 8th Anniversary Q&A

The History of China

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What Is the Difference Between Mandarin and Cantones?

In terms of spoken chinese, broadly speaking, mandarin is used as the default home language in the majority of northern china. Apart from mandarin itself, there are five other languages, or dialects, that boast more than forty million speakers each. E commonly known as cantones due to its prestige, dialect being centered around gwang dong and hong kong variants,. The second language is woo chinese, spoken by about 82 million people. And it's the language of the central coast area, centered around suzo and later shanghai. Just go on to academic chinese twitter at any point to see it played out in real time.

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