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The right view, as I see it is
1] mandarin is now the common language[ dialet] used in China and rapidly learned by the rest of the world...it shall be the common platform..no doubt about this
2] all other dialets are still very commonly used..in fact predominantly used in all province of china..EXCEPT Heilongjiang, where the local speaks PERFECT mandarin...it is also their dialet...
3]If one master mandarin.and ALSO know how to communicate with his ancestral dialets..it will be a PLUS PLUS ,,when one try to close up the communication gap when deal business with the locals in PRC...those speak more than one will even be more plus...WE WILL BE ONE UP against AngMo in china....some Angmo speak perfect Beijingnese Mandarin..
4]Most people can master more than 2 or 3 spoken langusges when start young..
To confess,, I learned Chinese, English ,Malay in school..and speaks 4 dialets..and understands a few more......and I pick up Shanghainese..Sichuanese. in PRC...
LETS OUR KIDS BROADEN THEIR LANGUAHE SKILL .and definitely will put them in advantages position in futures...
I just recently met a party secretaryfrom a city in Guangdong province..the moment I soke their very local Dongguan cantonese,,] my childhood nanny is from Dongguan..]..he start to behave like talking to his townfolks..and we start talking in the local dialets..of course..I got his firm support to start new business in his city.......at least verbally..
1] mandarin is now the common language[ dialet] used in China and rapidly learned by the rest of the world...it shall be the common platform..no doubt about this
2] all other dialets are still very commonly used..in fact predominantly used in all province of china..EXCEPT Heilongjiang, where the local speaks PERFECT mandarin...it is also their dialet...
3]If one master mandarin.and ALSO know how to communicate with his ancestral dialets..it will be a PLUS PLUS ,,when one try to close up the communication gap when deal business with the locals in PRC...those speak more than one will even be more plus...WE WILL BE ONE UP against AngMo in china....some Angmo speak perfect Beijingnese Mandarin..
4]Most people can master more than 2 or 3 spoken langusges when start young..
To confess,, I learned Chinese, English ,Malay in school..and speaks 4 dialets..and understands a few more......and I pick up Shanghainese..Sichuanese. in PRC...
LETS OUR KIDS BROADEN THEIR LANGUAHE SKILL .and definitely will put them in advantages position in futures...
I just recently met a party secretaryfrom a city in Guangdong province..the moment I soke their very local Dongguan cantonese,,] my childhood nanny is from Dongguan..]..he start to behave like talking to his townfolks..and we start talking in the local dialets..of course..I got his firm support to start new business in his city.......at least verbally..