shenjingbing SG 1.wenzhou 2cantonese 3 minnan 4suzhou 5shanghai 6 shanxi 7 changsha 8shandong 9 tianjin 10 dongbei
TehJarVu SG no.2 and no.3 almost everybody understands them here besides the noraml mandarin and english. somethings we have and you don't have!!!
shenjingbing SG this means if you only can understand mandarin .is it easy to know this dialects ? if easy ,the dialect is similar to mandarin .if not easy ,it is ....
TehJarVu SG it is it is it is it is you go and learn hokkien and see how loh, then you can unerstand zong yi da ge da, bleahx
Icemoon SG Actually Cantonese is easier to understand than Hokkien for someone versed in mandarin. Historically the chinese in the Tang Dynasty actually resembled Cantonese than other dialects. And I expect to see Hainan language listed .. I think Hainan is notoriously hard to understand .. haha
shinta SG sg so many different dialects in the small island.. think everyone can understand a bit of the main 3 dialects
shadowlunar SG Wrong! Cantonese aka Yue4 Yu3 aka Guang Dong Hua is a dialect language. Guang Dong is a province for goodness sake.