GaveUp [she/her] to chapotraphouse • edit-222 days agotech bro accidentally sent their son to Japan to study ChineseRemoved by modimagemessage-square103 fedilinkarrow-up1171
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minus-squareCloutAtlas [he/him]hexbear23·6 months agoImagine if the OP sent their son to some other Chinese diaspora and comes back with fluent Wenzhounese and is completely unable to communicate with 99.95% of Mandarin and Cantonese speakers link
minus-squareErika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]hexbear22·6 months ago"So do you speak Mandarin or Cantonese?" "Wenzhounese." "When Joe needs you to do what?" "No, I speak Wenzhounese. It's the most divergent form of Wu Chinese. 5 million native speakers. Spoken in Zhejiang province." "...So do you speak Mandarin or Cantonese?" link
Imagine if the OP sent their son to some other Chinese diaspora and comes back with fluent Wenzhounese and is completely unable to communicate with 99.95% of Mandarin and Cantonese speakers
"So do you speak Mandarin or Cantonese?"
"Wenzhounese."
"When Joe needs you to do what?"
"No, I speak Wenzhounese. It's the most divergent form of Wu Chinese. 5 million native speakers. Spoken in Zhejiang province."
"...So do you speak Mandarin or Cantonese?"