Biblical floods- what does this mean? Just because god promised not to wipe us out again with a flood does that mean we're safe from cat pee? If it rained for 40 days and nights, and the great flood covered the entire earth, this would mean that...
Advantages of language exchange learning include: 1  Learning the real Cantonese language (slang, expressions, etc.) used by ordinary native speakers. 2  Getting accustomed to the way native speakers speak in real (casual) Cantonese conversation. 3  Making a friend in the Cantonese-speaking culture.
Best Answer: Unless they are bi-lingual, they can barely understand each other. I frequent Hong Kong almost every month, the locals who have lived in Hong Kong all their life and mainly spoke cantonese cannot speak / understand mandarin. And for Mainlanders who goes to Hong Kong, they usually have a hard time understanding the cantonese. Some neighboring cities of Hong Kong like Guangzhou and Shenzhen, where cantonese are spoken a lot, the locals can sometimes be bi-lingual in mandarin and cantonese.