tiff
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hehe, don't u know Chinese?
it is a very beautiful language - China is a country with great history and culture
enjoy~ |
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Florida Girl
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I went to China also and I was able to understand everyone that spoke English. Most Chinese do so if you could not understand them, it was because they spoke Chinese (what a surprise in China) |
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jj_bao
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Wow.. Talk about an enlightment. Congrads Genius, you're in China, and the spoken language is Chinese... Surprising huh... |
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♥ Chelsea Blue ♥
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In China the Chinese speak Chinese. (Duh!) Actually, there are several ''dialects'', but the most common are Cantonese and Mandarin. |
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Tonia
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They were speaking a different language. You are funny (ha, ha)!!! |
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Paris, je t'aime
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yeah, they'll do that, they mess w/ your head man! its like their not from the United States or something... |
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big bird
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ooooh... controversial! |
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terencework
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If you are talking about chinese people in china speaking English.. they usually speak with an American accent.
As with the Mandarin language, different places in china speak in different accent too, so it can be sometimes difficult understanding them even nthough you can speak fluent Mandarin.
Try speaking to Wayne Rodney or steven gerrard, I'm any one not from UK will find it hard to understand what they are trying to daay. |
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?
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yeah... of course...every body feel like that if they cant speak / understand different language
u can learn chinese.. |
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Hiroko
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Yes. It's called Chinese.. or perhaps Cantonese depending on the area. |
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vickywwang
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maybe thats because they WERE speaking a different language! if you know enough mandarin, you actually should be able understand a lot of different dialects even if you can't speak them. |
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Spiffz
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well, no duh. (&& no offense). chinese and english are 2 completely different languages. if you wanna understand chinese, then go learn it.
hecka smart. lol XD |
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buzzrina
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Well, yeah! Chinese. And depends on where the exact place you've visited, they could speak mandarin or cantonese. |
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penguins.are.koo
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well they are |
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Strom-Rider
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i dont know why you didnt knew if they speak chinese? maybe your question is about something else... |
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BATMAN
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REALLY?!?!?! |
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Webballs
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You mean they were speaking a different language or you couldn't understand their gestures and communication?? |
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nini moreal
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of coz..they speak a different language...mainly mandarin...but most places have their own dialects...there's mandarin, cantonese, hokkien, teochew, hakka, shanghainese,etc |
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Tao
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I just want to say that just because in the west you hear more people speak Mandarin and Cantoness doesn't make them the most common dialects in China. Mandarin is most popular by default because it's the official language. Cantoness, on the other hands, is not necessarily in the 2nd place. If we go by population, I am pretty sure there are more people in China speak Szechuan dialect than Cantoness.
To the original question. If gh is talking about Chinese speaking English, then you are not the only one. I'm a Chinese and living in Canada for the past 15 years. I know Chinese speaks English with Chinese accent. Funny enough, I have trouble understanding Chinese speaking English sometimes. But I never have trouble understanding Canadians/Americans(I don't mean to say that my English is any good.) |
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