One of the most frustrating things about living in Hong Kong has been my struggle to speak Cantonese. More often than not, my attempts end in failure, with the person I’m talking to – despite ...

The Rev. Wayne Lee leads an English-speaking church of second- and third-generation Chinese Americans in the heart of ...

Cantonese, the dialect spoken by 98 percent of Hong Kong natives, is nearly as different from Mandarin as German is from French. They are written in the same characters, but a speaker of one can ...

The vast majority of people, if asked what language is spoken in China, would say: That’s a no-brainer: Chinese, of course! Some might know enough to differentiate between Mandarin Chinese and ...

Take a walk through Chinatown in one of Australia's major capital cities, and you're more than likely to hear the Chinese dialect of Cantonese being spoken. It's a tonal, guttural language ...

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For the world's most spoken language, there's a high barrier to entry to achieve competency. Why it's hard: Like Mandarin, Cantonese is also a tonal language. Except in Cantonese, there are eight ...

Despite being an ethnic minority, he said he experienced minimal discrimination growing up, and explained how being able to speak Cantonese helped him get along with the locals. He said that ...

Today, I’m talking with Luis von Ahn, the cofounder and CEO of Duolingo, the popular app that teaches languages. It’s an ...

Cantonese is mostly spoken in Hong Kong and in some southern Chinese regions, while Mandarin is the main language of mainland China.

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