<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=126749.msg5781466#msg5781466">Quote from: Caeli on 26-01-2012, 23:23:28</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I didn't grow up in SF Chinatown, so I can't be entirely certain, but I'm pretty sure that the dominant dialect there is Cantonese, not Mandarin.  From what I can remember about my history lessons, there was a huge influx of Hong Kong Chinese immigrants in the 1950s or 1960s, and a steady flow of Cantonese-speaking immigrants to SF Chinatown after that. Most of the storekeepers will speak Cantonese, as do most visitors.<br/><br/>I'd imagine that many of them (storekeepers) are also somewhat fluent in Mandarin (at the very least, enough to sell their goods), but on my frequent trips there, I've never heard anyone speaking Mandarin.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">You are actually correct, and I'm aware of that.  8-)  However, Jack was not born and raised in SF.  Though, she does speak both, along with another few languages.  I did not recall Lee's personal history, so I've no idea if, say, she'd bothered to learn either language.  Generally, she's more comfortable speaking Mandarin, as she's only lived in SF from her late teens forward.  :-)  I adore history.</span>