Chinese

I am Chinese. But exactly, what is Chinese? When someone thinks of the word, Chinese, they think of Chinese people, or the Chinese language. But, there is no language called Chinese.

There are a lot of languages spoken in China
Cantonese, Mandarin, Hui, Jin, Hakka, and a few more. But each of those have a lot of dialects, just Cantonese has like 50, and Mandarin has WAY more.

I speak Cantonese - because my dad is from Hong Kong. Hong Kong people speak Cantonese. It's kinda like Quebec in Canada, lol.

And there is also one province in China that speaks Cantonese, which happens to be the same province that my mom was born! Which means they both speak Cantonese. My mom knows Mandarin too. My dad can speak it, but with an accent, apparently. I speak Cantonese, Dan speaks Mandarin. Unlike French and English, no matter what Chinese language you speak, they all use the same writing form, same grammar, same words.

We do not have an alphabet. We just memorize each word, which means there a thousand of words you have to MEMORIZE! I can say and understand Cantonese perfectly, but reading and writing...um...no comment, lol!


Cantonese is apparently harder to learn than Mandarin. Because we have many words that sound the same but mean different. It's all the tone and pitch.

Like ---Gum.

Gum means rich, gold, and mandarin oranges.

Guuum (like that pitch) means mandarin oranges)

Ggggum (more emphasize on the g part) means Gold.

Ggggumm (a little more emphasize on the m part)  If you get the tones wrong, they will have NO IDEA what you are saying.


Well, that's about it, BYE!