Last nights homework

[MK Shrimper]

Are you Napster in disguise?

Not the last time I looked.

 

[osymandus]

There are between six and twelve main regional groups of Chinese (depending on classification scheme), of which the most populous (by far) is Mandarin (c. 850 million), followed by Wu (c. 90 million), Min (c. 70 million) and Cantonese (c. 70 million). Most of these groups are mutually unintelligible, though some, like Xiang and the Southwest Mandarin dialects, may share common terms and some degree of intelligibility.

Thankyou Wiki :)

Ah yeah but you see Hong Kong speaks Cantonise ;) as do a lot of Westernised Chinese as they want to distance themseleves from mainland china :D

 

[Firestorm]

There are between six and twelve main regional groups of Chinese (depending on classification scheme), of which the most populous (by far) is Mandarin (c. 850 million), followed by Wu (c. 90 million), Min (c. 70 million) and Cantonese (c. 70 million). Most of these groups are mutually unintelligible, though some, like Xiang and the Southwest Mandarin dialects, may share common terms and some degree of intelligibility.

Thankyou Wiki :)

I looked up Cantonese on Wiki and got 100M speakers, The other site did not list it dispite going as low as 75M speakers and there was an inference that they were regional Dialects - not seperate Languages . So one quantum leap later and my post was started ....

Note to self, must try harder......

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Not the last time I looked.

Go on, tell us something we don't know!
I say tell us, I mean hint you know something and then log off for 2 days!

 

[Mad Cyril]

I would rather see exchange students come over from China and Japan.

German, Spanish and French exchange students that visit the UK wear the worst possible clothes and many of them have sh!t Ivan Campo style haircuts

 

[MK Shrimper]

Go on, tell us something we don't know!
I say tell us, I mean hint you know something and then log off for 2 days!

Erm... I'd possibly like a Mars Bar?

Seeya on Friday.... :(

 

[Vange Shrimper]

Only 75M speak French

Did you know that French is actually a dying language?

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Did you know that French is actually a dying language?

Non, c'est terrible! :p

 

[Southminster_Shrimper]

Non, c'est terrible! :p

Trust you to steam in with your french tongue....:p

 

[South Bank Hank]

...my nine year olds homework last night left me gobsmacked, she is being taught.....Cantonese.

Could we see an increase in the well-worn excuse "Dog ate my homework"?
Worse still, if you went to the wong restaurant, "Dog is my homework"

 

[Southminster_Shrimper]

Could we see an increase in the well-worn excuse "Dog ate my homework"?
Worse still, if you went to the wong place, "Dog is my homework"

Thought he was a bounty hunter?

 

[Shrimper2thecore]

Totally pointless, I did languages at school, what a waste of time, by 2020, 90% of the world will speak English!!

I know it is lazy of us, but take the example of when you see a french person and a german speaking, they will do it in English!

 

[shrimper4life]

Ah yeah but you see Hong Kong speaks Cantonise ;) as do a lot of Westernised Chinese as they want to distance themseleves from mainland china :D

yep i speak cantonese but dont have a clue on understanding mandarin. Would have thought schools would teach mandarin though as that is the dominant dialect in China

 

[DTS]

Cantonese (or mandarin Chinese as it is also known) is the most spoken language in the world (837M speak it as opposed to 370M for English)
http://www.englishenglish.com/english_facts_1.htm

Only 75M speak French and 98M German

Of which I expect 95% live and never leave China....

Total waste of time in my book Callan unless she plans to move to China or open up a take-away......

Massage for a six year old is very wrong too in my book.....

DtS

 

[Southminster_Shrimper]

Maybe not for too long....could be a more widely spoken language if they can travel other than for work or family reasons...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4711755.stm

 

[osymandus]

Maybe not for too long....could be a more widely spoken language if they can travel other than for work or family reasons...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4711755.stm

That was 2 years ago !!! Eeeek

 

[JoshC]

Nunca! Gracias las dios por Inglaterra, los idiomas del mundo eran menos imporntante que Ingles,la cantones es insustancial:p

 

[Southminster_Shrimper]

That was 2 years ago !!! Eeeek

Yep.....but only cos the UK was added to the approved list.

The more that are added the more likely the language is to spread.

Chinese plumber anyone?

 

[Napster]

Blimey. I don't even post and I get mentioned on here.

ps I think it's a cracking idea, although Mandarin/Cantonese are tricky to learn, being tonal languages. Oh, and Osymandus, learning Latin is a waste of time unless you're intending on invading the Holy Roman Empire. It is only slightly related to the Romance languages of today and so doesn't actually help you in anything unless you want to be pretentious or go into law or medicine.

 

[C C Csiders]

Blimey. I don't even post and I get mentioned on here.

ps I think it's a cracking idea, although Mandarin/Cantonese are tricky to learn, being tonal languages. Oh, and Osymandus, learning Latin is a waste of time unless you're intending on invading the Holy Roman Empire. It is only slightly related to the Romance languages of today and so doesn't actually help you in anything unless you want to be pretentious or go into law or medicine.

Or the priesthood. Bloody handy if you have designs on being The Pope one day.