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YoshidaYui

(45,224 posts) Sat Feb 21, 2026, 03:57 PM 7 hrs ago

In China. How many languages do you speak?

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In China. How many languages do you speak? (Original Post) YoshidaYui 7 hrs ago OP

Serious question: Is "Chinese" a "language" and Mandarin, Catonese, etc. LoisB 7 hrs ago #1

YES YoshidaYui 45 min ago #3

Too many people in the U.S.A. know very little about the rest of the world. hunter 4 hrs ago #2

I totally agree YoshidaYui 31 min ago #4

LoisB

(12,674 posts)

1. Serious question: Is "Chinese" a "language" and Mandarin, Catonese, etc.

Reply to YoshidaYui (Original post)

Sat Feb 21, 2026, 04:38 PM

7 hrs ago

considered dialects of the Chinese language?

YoshidaYui

(45,224 posts)

3. YES

Reply to LoisB (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 21, 2026, 11:04 PM

45 min ago

CHINESE is a language, and Mandarin, Cantonese and Yi are considered dialects. In Japan Tokyo Bin is different from Osaka Bin or Hokkido Bin.

hunter

(40,530 posts)

2. Too many people in the U.S.A. know very little about the rest of the world.

Reply to YoshidaYui (Original post)

Sat Feb 21, 2026, 06:58 PM

4 hrs ago

This is very troubling as the rest of the world passes us by.

Trump, of course, is making everything worse.

YoshidaYui

(45,224 posts)

4. I totally agree

Reply to hunter (Reply #2)

Sat Feb 21, 2026, 11:18 PM

31 min ago

I have friends who speak more then two languages and even one friend who speaks Korean, Japanese, Cantonese, Mandarin and English. She of course works out at our local airport as a translator.

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