GaveUp [she/her]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-21 month agotech bro accidentally sent their son to Japan to study Chinesehexbear.netimagemessage-square89fedilinkarrow-up1152arrow-down10
arrow-up1152arrow-down1imagetech bro accidentally sent their son to Japan to study Chinesehexbear.netGaveUp [she/her]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square89fedilink
minus-squareCloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·1 month agoImagine if the OP sent their son to some other Chinese diaspora and comes back with fluent Wenzhounese and is completely unable to communicate with 99.95% of Mandarin and Cantonese speakers
minus-squareErika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·1 month ago“So do you speak Mandarin or Cantonese?” “Wenzhounese.” “When Joe needs you to do what?” “No, I speak Wenzhounese. It’s the most divergent form of Wu Chinese. 5 million native speakers. Spoken in Zhejiang province.” “…So do you speak Mandarin or Cantonese?”
Imagine if the OP sent their son to some other Chinese diaspora and comes back with fluent Wenzhounese and is completely unable to communicate with 99.95% of Mandarin and Cantonese speakers
“So do you speak Mandarin or Cantonese?”
“Wenzhounese.”
“When Joe needs you to do what?”
“No, I speak Wenzhounese. It’s the most divergent form of Wu Chinese. 5 million native speakers. Spoken in Zhejiang province.”
“…So do you speak Mandarin or Cantonese?”