Do you speak chinese?

[Bury Michigan]

Mandarin, Toisan, and Cantonese. Only a little bit of each.  

[[.Higan Bana.]]

Me speak and write mandarin that's it~~  

[killedvictim10]

I speak Cantonese, but I'm trying to learn Mandarin mrgreen  

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Liambiam

I know a little Cantonese and can understand people talking in Cantonese. I don't understand Chinese writing or Mandarin though. crying

Hhmm, I think I've posted here.. but yeah I speak Cantonese, but I'm so terrible at it. The thing I really want to be able to do is to insult people with it, but I can't. I always here jokes on the chinese tvb shows, and they're usually referencing back to famous historical names and all that.. do most chinese do that?
anyways, At home, my parents speak with there own different chinese dialect,and and well at times, I mix that annnd cantonese up, so that's quite embaressing redface at school there are exchange students from Hong Kong in my japanese class,and I try my hardest to speak chinese, but i always end up speaking eng to them. *sighs* sweatdrop  

[Tokioka]

Yasuragi-chan

Liambiam

I know a little Cantonese and can understand people talking in Cantonese. I don't understand Chinese writing or Mandarin though. crying

Hhmm, I think I've posted here.. but yeah I speak Cantonese, but I'm so terrible at it. The thing I really want to be able to do is to insult people with it, but I can't. I always here jokes on the chinese tvb shows, and they're usually referencing back to famous historical names and all that.. do most chinese do that?
anyways, At home, my parents speak with there own different chinese dialect,and and well at times, I mix that annnd cantonese up, so that's quite embaressing redface at school there are exchange students from Hong Kong in my japanese class,and I try my hardest to speak chinese, but i always end up speaking eng to them. *sighs* sweatdrop

Awwwwww 3nodding You're just like the 'kitten' that never gives up, but never gets any closer to her goal... awwww

(I say kitten, but it might be a puppy or something... but a kitten's cute enough right?) wink  

[K i m m e h]

Crap. I have a Chinese exam today and I'm gonna fail. gonk  

[cutebunnyyt]

i speak Mandarin 4laugh  

[The_Monkey_King65]

I can speak Cantonese....well sort of....Im learning...What do you expect being American born??!??! ANyway
Lay-ho every1  

[blumage]

Chinese??? whats that??
xp just joking,
im only half and i've never tried to learn chinese since last summer...
i found it hard...I reallized that i can't have a real talk with my grand mom who lives in hk...she only speaks cantonese and knows no english, I think i can understand more putonghua than cantonese...hehe thats because of my friend who taught me so many things...
THnX FElix  

[xoCrow]

I understand it but I can't really speak it.

With the exceptions of food, greetings, etc. because I obviously gotta know those x]

 

[Darek Khort]

I can't read or write Chinese, but I can speak and understand Shanghainese to an adequate amount, and a really tiny bit of Mandarin.

Since I'm used to speaking Shanghainese, Mandarin sounds all high-feluting, as though everybody who speaks Mandarin are from some royal family who can't speak in slang or anything.
So yea.

I do want to learn Mandarin, but it gets really difficult. It is almost a sophisticated, posh, slow-motion of Shanghainese.  

[Riuna]

I can speak and understand mandarin and i can write chinese i also know tibeten and cantonese. yay! go me 4laugh But i should since i was born there.  

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Kimiko-ue

i know mandarin and the fujian dialect whee

me too!  

[EnoughisEnoughisEnough]

Mandarin baby- though with a bit of Shen Yang dialect influence.

It's cuz my dad's side came from those snooby land-lord types.  

[Riku Haradaa]

Liambiam

I know a little Cantonese and can understand people talking in Cantonese. I don't understand Chinese writing or Mandarin though. crying

thats pretty much what i can do