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the title just pratice my voice, hehe , nice to see u all.
I am from China. if u need a chinese friend, I'd love to.
u can check out my profile.
u can teach me English, I can teach Chinese.

I am sorry to tell u that I don't know the chinese song u mentioned.
but I am surprised that u like chinese song. I am glad that u like it
BTW:I speak Mandarian, I know little Cantonese.

hehe, yeah, the difference is very UNsubtle! For all intents and purposes, Cantonese and Mandarin are 2 completely different languages. They're related, so they share a lot of common grammar rules and have some words that are similar...I'd say they're about as similar as French and Spanish. That's a pretty bad comparison, but it's the closest thing I can think of with my limited language knowledge...I'll give you a couple of examples (spelled out phonetically) to help you see what I mean...

How are you?

Cantonese: lay ho ma?

Mandarin: nee how ma? (this is phonetically spelled out according to American English, not using pinyin)

See, those are pretty similar...totally different tones (which aren't indicated here), but similar structure and some similar words.

I want to eat a little something.

Cantonese: ngoh seyung sik yet-tee yee-ah. (again, this is phonetic, not the Yale system)

Mandarin: woh ssee-ang chr yee dee-an(r) dong-see.

Both dialects use the same words, but totally different sounds.

Also, Cantonese has like 7 tones, whereas Mandarin has 5...and there's no falling-rising tone in Cantonese like there is in Mandarin.

Does that help at all? My phoneticized spelling isn't really all that close on some words because they're not sounds we use in English, really.

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I've been studying for about a year and 3 months now. I can't really say it's all been on my own that I've learned it; I have some friends on Yahoo IM and on MSN that help me out a lot when I have questions.

Yep, I've heard that Shenzen has a lot of Cantonese speakers. How far is Shenzen from Guangdong? Believe me, my Cantonese is pretty pathetic, worse than my Mandarin! It's easy to rattle off facts about a language, but speaking it is something else entirely!

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Oh, I added you to my MSN. When you log on next, you'll see me there.

Hello! Hmmm...I don't know why I don't show up in your Messenger window...that's strange. I added you as "

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" That's your address, right? you should be seeing me show up. I won't be haoqide, though. I'll show up as ??, which is my Chinese name that my close friend gave me.

Thank you for the compliments! I appreciate them! It's always nice to hear compliments when you're working hard on something. ?? ??!

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