Re: Hello-how many Chinese are here?
JGoldman10 wrote:maliyana wrote:
sorry , I cant sleak Taiwanese , but I can speak Henanese and Tianjinese , ((((Henan is in the center of china ; and Tianjin is in the northeast of it , and beside the bohai bay .
TO tell you a strang and also a truth thing , when a Henannese or shanxinese come across a guangdongnese (guangdong province) , they both can't understand eachother,for example of me , completely I can't understand a guangdongnese even a word !!
haha.
Okay can you please help me with Henanese and Tianjinese?
Sure, I am glad to do it ,but how? What can I do for you ?
Books ? but there is not any book about it . even have, I can speak for certain because it is not so complex but just a another speakaccent about chinese , and it is not far away from putonghua .
The most different between Putonghua and Henahua(the language accent that Henanese speak, ' hua ' in chinese mean ' language') , Putonghua is not an ancient language , so certainly, it does not contern much culture , conversely Henanhua has a long history , and it has excellent civilization .
Please believe, it's very easy to speak Henanese(Henanhua) if you have learnt Chinese Putonghua , for Henanhua is just an accent among lots of other province's accents.
But the speeking and pronounce is much different between some dialects , some difference are huge (exampled on prior text ). Some person even said the difference is larger than that between French and Italian , but I think it's just a joke .
Fortunately , I grow up in the central of china , haha , in the dormitory when I was in college, my friend telephone home or their classmate in senior high school times, they speak with their dialect , mostly person can't listen even a word ; but others can listen nearly clearly, including me .