Itâs good to remind ourselves of its many different uses, especially on those days when getting students to participate feels like pulling hensâ teeth. 1  Participation adds interest âItâs hard to maintain studentsâ focus and attention when all they hear is the professor talking.
Quora User, fluent speaker of Mandarin and Cantonese. Knowing Cantonese alone does not make you understand Mandarin due to the large differences in the language/dialect. However, I believe the majority of Cantonese speakers can understand Mandarin, but only because they have separately studied Mandarin (either formally in school, or self-taught).
The Cantonese dialect is a variety of the Chinese language that is associated with a very exciting and distinct culture well-known both within China and around the world. Although Cantonese is frequently referred to as a language, it is technically classified as a dialect. As one of the most significant dialects of the Chinese language, Cantonese is spoken by more than 55 million people in China.