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bchang
First question would be what you want to learn? For sure speaking I guess. How about reading and
writing (which I consider seperate issues)?

You can learn the spoken languages together. However, to learn simplified and traditional written
script together sounds very tough to me. But in your case, you may not need written script at all.



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cBrammer -

I lived in HK or several years with only chinese people, and so my first chinese dialect was
Cantonese. I do love the slang of cantonese.... there is a flow to it that I cant quite seem to
feel in mandarin...perhaps it is the superfluous ending particals! but hey, i love it.

Anyway, Canontese was a beast to master. And to be honest, I havent met many white people that
speak it better than me, and I still don't consider myself to be a "master" of the language. It
takes continual learning for decades.

Learning mandarin from cant.... that is what I am doing now, I am a mand. major, and I am picking
it up way faster than everyone else, but my sounds still have some residual cantonese in them, and
my tones get mixed up with cantonese tones, but it is much easier to learn Mand with my Cant
background. Hope that helps!












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