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).
Cantonese is a dialect of Chinese, as is Mandarin. If you refer to it as traditional Chinese, you probably mean Mandarin, which is spoken more in the north (including the capitol). Cantonese is spoken more in the south and Hong Kong.Both dialects are written the same way with the same characters.he language or Cantonese dialect or yue (yuÃ¨ Simplified:chinese) ç²µè¯­ The cantonese one is a quite Conservative chinese, dialect nearer to old forms of the language than other.(Dialects The cantonese one has nine, tones six of regular longitude and three for the calls short). syllables