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 Mar 29 2011, 10:34 PM
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Just like difference between Urdu, Telugu, Malayalam etc. for Indian regions except that they only have one type of modern writing system. Qin Shi Huang, the ancient Chinese Emperor destroyed all traces of different writing system so nowadays all dialects have only one writing system.
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Mar 29 2011, 10:37 PM
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QUOTE(epsonstylux @ Mar 29 2011, 10:35 PM) Tis i have no idea. Difference in slang is smaller as compared to difference in dialect - it introduces a few new terms but the general syntax is similar. Different dialect means the style of speaking is totally different.err ayam stil confuse, dialect n slang is different ah?  This post has been edited by Thinkingfox: Mar 29 2011, 10:37 PM |
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Mar 29 2011, 10:53 PM
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QUOTE(epsonstylux @ Mar 29 2011, 10:39 PM) how different exactly? like if i only know mandarin n they spoke cantonese u cant understand a thing? liddat huh? QUOTE Teochew and Amoy Hokkien speech are 84% phonetically similar[6] and 34% lexically similar,[7] whereas Mandarin and Amoy Min Nan are 62% phonetically similar[6] and 15% lexically similar.[7] In comparison, German and English are 60% lexically similar.[8] German and English are 4 times more similar lexically than Mandarin and Min Nan (Hokkien). |
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Mar 29 2011, 10:59 PM
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QUOTE(Iphone4Lover @ Mar 29 2011, 10:57 PM) SOS? I thought German's grammar is extremely different from English? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HokkienSomemore I not a hokkien and never learnt it b4, i still able to watch and understand those taiwan hokkien movie. which itself is cites from: "glossika Southern Min Language phonetics". Glossika.com. Retrieved 2010-09-16. "glossika Southern Min Language". Glossika.com. Retrieved 2010-09-16. "German". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2010-09-16. "RFC 3066 Language code assignments". Evertype.com. Retrieved 2010-09-16. |
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Mar 29 2011, 11:02 PM
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QUOTE(stimix @ Mar 29 2011, 11:00 PM) English actually is part of Germanic languarge..i.e German is the purest Engligh actually Yea, that's why they call themselves Anglo-Saxon. The Saxons are Saxony in Germany. |
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Mar 29 2011, 11:17 PM
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QUOTE(tankerbell12345 @ Mar 29 2011, 11:16 PM) I have been researching a lot lately about the 'true' chinese history. Cantonese and vietnamese are somewhat related. Errrr...u must be trolling.What i found about cantonese are actually they are mixed blood of the aborigine people at the region and the chinese, therefore forming at new ethic group cantonese. Another group of aborigine people then have mixed blood in the south and form wat we call them as vietnamese. The similarities between these groups (cantonese and vietnamese) are still obvious in certain aspect in their face structure. For example , they both have still have short nose ; ugly piglike nose. |
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Mar 30 2011, 12:32 AM
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Or sign up for classes at TAR college Centre of Continuing and Professional Education at Wisma MCA. Why MCA?
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