Cope Any Chinese speakers here? I'd like to learn some Chinese but not sure if it's worth it.

[Q. H. Cooks]

There are a lot of Chinese immigrants where I live so it'd be cool to learn it and try to make some ricecel friends. I know it's hard, but I wouldn't aim at fluency, only B1 level at max and only talking and listening, I wouldn't try to learn the writing system.

The main problem is that I found out most Chinese here come from Guangzhou and their native language is usually Cantonese or Taishanese and not Mandarin. I guess they know some Mandarin, but what good would it be for me to learn it if it's not the language they actually use to communicate among themselves? Are those native Cantonese and Taishanese speakers fluent at Mandarin at least? There are barely any resources to learn any Sinitic language that's not Mandarin.

 

[AsiaCel]

What's your native language

 

[Q. H. Cooks]

What's your native language

Too high inhib to say. Nothing close to Sinitic languages. Any resource in English to learn it would be fine.

 

[Chirag gupta]

ching Chong Chang Ching rice ping pong.

that’s about it pretty much

 

[JewProducER]

ching Chong Chang Ching rice ping pong.

that’s about it pretty much

 

[retributor]

It's worth it.

If you're loyal to China Xi Jingping personally handpicks an Uyghur tradwife for you.

 

[retributor]

Learn a northern dialect since I've heard southern Chinese are considered subhuman by the rest of China.

 

[Trident]

Waste of time

 

[Anarcho Nihilist]

There are a lot of Chinese immigrants where I live so it'd be cool to learn it and try to make some ricecel friends. I know it's hard, but I wouldn't aim at fluency, only B1 level at max and only talking and listening, I wouldn't try to learn the writing system.

The main problem is that I found out most Chinese here come from Guangzhou and their native language is usually Cantonese or Taishanese and not Mandarin. I guess they know some Mandarin, but what good would it be for me to learn it if it's not the language they actually use to communicate among themselves? Are those native Cantonese and Taishanese speakers fluent at Mandarin at least? There are barely any resources to learn any Sinitic language that's not Mandarin.

It's too difficult, I wouldn't even try. It would take at least 5-7 years. It's easier to be born in China and live there for your entire life and then learn English than to learn Chinese.

 

[LeFrenchCel]

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[Q. H. Cooks]

Learn a northern dialect since I've heard southern Chinese are considered subhuman by the rest of China.

It's funny because most Chinese immigrants here are from the southern parts of China like I said but they look as white as it gets as an East Asian. Meanwhile, many northern Chinese are darker. Did the communists did some retarded replacing of people in China that caused it?

 

[Q. H. Cooks]

It's too difficult, I wouldn't even try. It would take at least 5-7 years.

Even if I just focus on speaking, listening and Pinyin?

The difficulty doesn't discourage me nearly as much as the fact the Chinese here don't speak a single language but rather three different ones, all seemingly mutually unintelligible among themselves, two of which have little to no available material to learn.

 

[retributor]

It's funny because most Chinese immigrants here are from the southern parts of China like I said but they look as white as it gets as an East Asian. Meanwhile, many northern Chinese are darker. Did the communists did some retarded replacing of people in China that caused it?

North Korean/North Chinese/Mongol/Tvrkic

South Korean/Japanese/South Chinese/Vietnamese

Can you guess who ruled China for 5000 years?

 

[Q. H. Cooks]

North Korean/North Chinese/Mongol/Tvrkic

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South Korean/Japanese/South Chinese/Vietnamese

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Can you guess who ruled China for 5000 years?

I had already noticed that Northeast Asians mog their southern counterparts, not only by being whiter but also by having more squarish faces on average.

I wonder why that is.

 

[underballer]

It's funny because most Chinese immigrants here are from the southern parts of China like I said but they look as white as it gets as an East Asian. Meanwhile, many northern Chinese are darker. Did the communists did some retarded replacing of people in China that caused it?

interesting.

just curious where you're at?

apparently the chinese diaspora mostly speaks mandarin now