Itâs good to remind ourselves of its many different uses, especially on those days when getting students to participate feels like pulling hensâ teeth. 1  Participation adds interest âItâs hard to maintain studentsâ focus and attention when all they hear is the professor talking.
Quora User, fluent speaker of Mandarin and Cantonese. Knowing Cantonese alone does not make you understand Mandarin due to the large differences in the language/dialect. However, I believe the majority of Cantonese speakers can understand Mandarin, but only because they have separately studied Mandarin (either formally in school, or self-taught).
Simplified is used in mainland China - Traditional is used in Hong Kong and Taiwan. This has nothing to do with Mandarin or Cantonese. Mandarin, or Putonghua as it is known in China is the official language of China. It is by far the largest language in China. Cantonese is the dialect or language of Guangdong and Hong Kong. For historic reasons, it is also the language of most overseas Chinese.