Take a look at these 11 simple home remedies for a sore throat which might help soothe the pain or solve the problem entirely. This is an age old trick that really does work. For generations people have been gargling warm salt water in order to treat a sore throat, and even today it could be one of the best solutions. The reason it works is that the salt water decreases the swelling of the mucous membranes.
Cantonese, or Standard Cantonese, is a variety of Chinese spoken in the city of Guangzhou (known historically as Canton) in southeastern China. It is the traditional prestige variety of Yue, one of the major subdivisions of Chinese.
, 8 Years Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. 1  Cantonese (80 million native speakers) is a lively language and will endear you do those in Hong Kong, Macau and Guangdong province. 2  Mandarin is by far the more common language, and the #1 tongue in the world in terms of native speakers. One of the reasons that someone may think that Cantonese speakers number the same as Mandarin is that the first Chinese immigrants to the United States were from Guangdong province and spoke Cantonese or regional dialects.