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Originally Posted by Yan
Yeah... Because China is so huge they have different 'provinces' (can't think of the exact word... too early in the morning  ) and people from different places have different dialects.
Mandarin is a dialect itself, I believe but it is made into the country's national language.
I can prolly just speak a teensy bit of it  I grew up spaking Cantonese, another dialect  |
China has over 1,000 dialects but there is Mandarin, Gan, Hakka, Min, Wu, Xiang and Cantonese to name a few.
As well as the many Japanese dialects,
Hokkaido-ben, Tohoku-ben, Kawachi-ben, Nagoya-ben, Kyoto-ben, Satsuma-ben, Kansai, Fukui, Hakkata.... to name a few.