Xue Sheng
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Taishan… now was that so hard… the only PROPER way to say it and spell it if you are writing in Pinyin
By the way a note on my horrible Mandarin (and it is horrible): I was trying to speak to a woman I work with, who is from Shanghai and she just sat there staring at me. I stopped and apologized for pronouncing things so horrible to which she said...”Oh no the pronounciations were fine” She just could not figure out why this meiguoren was speaking with a Beijing accent
Heavens no… I tried that a few years back and it got INCREDIBLY confusing. I got to a point where the only person that could understand me was a friend of mine who was from Guangzhou that spoke Cantonese, Mandarin and was an English teacher in China. Shortly after that my brain went fizzle and I forgot it all. Learn one first and when you are comfortable with it go to the other.
You will find most people from China that are 60 or less can speak mandarin. Those that are from the South do tend to speak more dialects than those from the North. My Taiji sifu is from the south and speaks Shanghai Dialect, Cantonese and Mandarin, My friend from Guangzhou spoke the same 3 dialects the woman I have referred to spoke Cantonese and Mandarin as does a very good friend of mine from Hong Kong. My first sifu (Northerner) speaks only mandarin, my Sanda sifu, from way north China, spoke only Mandarin, an old training buddy of mine who is from Beijing speaks only mandarin and my wife also speaks only Mandarin as does her entire family as well, This is only as far as Chinese dialects go, they all speak English...well not my wife's entire family. My wife has thought about learning Cantonese but has yet to do so... if we ever travel to Hong Kong she likely will work on it
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clfsean, IMO, is the goto guy for Cantonese on MT (even though it is the devil tongue)
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