cantonese

I also speak some Cantonese, and I can give an example of language differences between Cantonese and Modern Standard Chinese (Mandarin).

Mandarin and Cantonese are more distinct, in several respects, than English is from German or than French is from Spanish.

Who would be more afraid, in your scenario, between the physicist and a Cantonese scholar?

Strong preference for candidates with some degree of fluency in mandarin or cantonese, interest in all-things-mobile and a desire to stay in China post-graduation.

The language is so strange, because is based on using the same word ( twin 1 uses 'bahdi', twin 2 'budji' - approx phonetic rendering), repeatedly but changing tonality, like in cantonese.

On the other hand, dialects such as Cantonese and Mandarin are probably just syntax layer difference -- maybe this can even be applied to Latin and French.

God help me if I ever learned Cantonese Chinese!

My buddy Dave's father-in-law was born and raised in Southern Manhattan, but speaks only Cantonese and is unable to hold a conversation with Dave (who is from Taiwan, native speaker of Mandarin and English).

There's a running joke among cantonese who've watched the comedy 國產凌凌漆[1] (= Domestic-produced 007), the character who acted as Agent 007's inventor, built for the agent a solar-powered torch that only works in the sun.

The nucleus of Chinese civilization was in the Yellow river region, in northern China, where rice was not a native plant - as opposed to the Yangtze and Cantonese regions of China, which were colonized later.

This way I could express that the majority of the speakers struggle with reading/writing asymmetry, whether they are Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese speakers, in Taiwan or speak another related language.

I'm told that growing up here, leaving at age 15, and coming back at 25 makes it very difficult to follow daily conversations and read certain types of publications for the first few months because of the amount of slang used and how rapidly Cantonese changes.

Calling both Mandarin and Cantonese "dialects of Chinese" is simply a matter of the politics of China denying linguistic reality.

No, he doesn't." 他會說普通話嗎？ 他不會。 in Modern Standard Chinese characters contrasts with how you would write "Does he know how to speak Cantonese?

"No, he doesn't." 佢識唔識講廣東話？ 佢唔識。 in the Chinese characters used to write Cantonese.

We usually don't say "written Mandarin", but less formal writing using the grammar of one of the other dialects would usually be called "Written Cantonese".

There's not much to stop a startup in the US from developing it's site in Mandarin or Cantonese.

On the other hand, Chinese with Mandarin and it's many dialects (Cantonese, Shanghainese etc..) is a whole new game..

As a Chinese who doesn't speak Cantonese, I never found it difficult in reading the shop names in HK/Canton.