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Originally Posted by HansTWN
I have "given it all back to the teachers", as the Chinese say. Taiwanese I hear almost every day so I can understand a little, same with Cantonese. Their written forms are, of course, virtually identical to Mandarin.
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A familiar saying that I also remember!
Well, actually the written Cantonese is quite different. (I just read one short story written in Cantonese last night and I found the Cantonese words strange.) I never learned to read Cantonese properly.