Top 10 Reasons to Learn Cantonese – Learning Chinese

www.due-east.org — A friend of mine just sent me a link to a New York Times article about how Cantonese is slowly dying out in New York’s Chinatown. I couldn’t help but get a little sad reading it. Sure, it’s a ridiculously difficult language to learn (which is why it should be spelled Can’t-onese), but it’s also an amazingly interesting language brimming with character. So, here I make my case for why people should try to learn it in addition to Mandarin. Here you are: My top 10 reasons to learn Cantonese!

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coljac 2 years 13 weeks ago

Not a bad article, but it needs to be reposted without the typo...

Ryan 2 years 13 weeks ago

They happen to the best of us. I hope HaoQiDe doesn't mind that I fixed it for him. URL is still wrong though.

haoqide 2 years 13 weeks ago

Oops, sorry about the typo. Thanks for fixing it, Ryan. :)

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