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Comment on How come in most school in the USA (at least mine) they teach Spain Spanish instead of Mexico Spanish? Would not Mexico Spanish be an obvious choice to teach?

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SuperSleuth@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Mandarin and Cantonese are essentially two different languages that happen to share the same characters. Someone from Honduras would be able to understand 99.9% of what a Spaniard says. If you only speak Mandarin you wouldn’t be able to understand Cantonese at all.

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MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It’s wild when you look into how many different languages are “Chinese”. It’s like if someone were to say that someone from Germany spoke “European”.

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- dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  In contrast though, I’m close to native in German, yet have a hard time with Austro-Bavarian dialects and can’t understand Schwiizerdütsch at all. The amount of times I have to say “Hochdeutsch, bitte…”
  
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  - dxc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Oida
    
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Elaine@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Can confirm, I am learning Mandarin but every time I hear Cantonese I can barely make heads or tails of it.

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