Canto vs. Mando Options

[SilverStallion]

Which language do you guys like better? This of course only applies to people who speak both because usually if you only speak one of the two, you'll be more inclined to pick that one.

[m3ikei.monsTa]

yep, i speak canto... i learnt a bit of mando, but lyk da reason i pick canto because mando has dis wierd curling tongue 're' accent...
dere's dis song in mando, a rap kind, it had so much 're' accent fing it pissed me off bad... i don't fink i make sense dere... but newaiz i prefer canto...

[SilverStallion]

Mandarin has a more smooth flow to it, it sounds much better when you're trying to woo a chick but Cantonese is much better for simply everyday talk. That's just the way I see it.

[way2quik]

i speak canto but i prefer mandarin because it just sounds cooler.

[HonMan]

I speak both and I like canto better because there's slang and the swearing is better. Jokes are play on words are a lot better when speaking in canto.

[morning.glory]

Canto imo is better. I speak mandarin tho so i woudn't really kno.... to me it just sounds better hehe

[cutie_princez]

I speak mandarin but I like cantonese better.

Cantonese rules! Mandarin sound so old-fashioned and outdated.

[shadowhunter604]

mandarin(non-beijing) imo sounds smoother and flows more easily than cantonese. I've been watching a lot of chinese series recently, HK/Taiwanese and for some reason the huge amount of slang in cantonese pisses me off. That's why on my radio i listen to a mandarin station instead of cantonese(english doesnt count). I also noticed that i prefer listening to a female voice(maybe between 18-30 yrs old) speak mandarin because it sounds nice. When a male with with a deep voice starts speaking, or an older women speaks, it doesn't sound too good to me. I don't mean that as a diss, it's just something that i noticed from listening to the mando radio a lot. This goes for most languages, especially japanese.

Also, when i say mandarin im referring more to taiwanese mandarin, not beijing/mainland simply because i don't like that "er" sound that they put at the end of specific words, for example instead of "na3 li3" (where), mainland ppl go "nar3". Maybe i'm just not used to it iono. It doesn't sound good to me. Perhaps this was what ~ azn pink angel ~ meant in the second post in this topic.

THat is not to say i don't like cantonese btw, i think cantonese is an awesome language.

This post has been edited by shadowhunter604: Oct 27 2004 2 47 AM

[SilverStallion]

Cantonese rules!  Mandarin sound so old-fashioned and outdated.

Actually Cantonese is much older than Mandarin. Cantonese is far closer to ancient and Middle Chinese than Mandarin is.

I speak cantonese and cant for madarin...but i think mandarin when spoken is so poetic and soothe sounding than cantonese. Though cantonese songs are better than those that are sung in mandarin.

[SilverStallion]

Wow that's so cool, Mandarin speakers thinking Cantonese sounding cooler YAY

i can speak canto ....and i do like it better then mandarin...it might be a bit smoother but i still like canto better >_>

[davidsen]

hmm...
i like cantonese much more, because it sounds better
and mandarin sounds weird for me (example: announces in KCR/MTR trains)

[火柴人]

well-lah... i speak cantonese.. but there are reasons why speaking manderine can be better lor.... b/c its such a widely spoken lang. i want to learn gar... can make more fds that way..

[azn_girl88]

I speak canto, I think it sounds nicer and much easier then mandarin.
Mandarin is hard to learn if you haven't learnt it in your childhood.

[m3ikei.monsTa]

me wanna add somfin else... altho i agreed w/ canto b4, i fink mando s2 songs 4 some reason 2 me sounds more romantic-ish... '

I speak a bit of both but ill have to say that mandarin is FAR better than cantonese. Mandarin is alot smoother and clearer in songs and the big plus is that you dont have to get pissed off listening to the retards who wreak the cantonese dialet with an annoying slurring five year old kid style, putting stretched out GAY "lar" and "wah" sounds at the end of each and every sentence. but then again mandarin accents depends on who is speaking it, some have better than others i find vicky zhao's speaking accent to be one of the best to listen to

[asianganster]

well-lah... i speak cantonese.. but there are reasons why speaking manderine can be better lor.... b/c its such a widely spoken lang. i want to learn gar... can make more fds that way..

yer canto is definently easier to speak and understand

[sKiZZiT]

Many says Chinese when they actually mean Mandarin. I know only Cantonese though.

[Dmyc]

Intresting. I do agree mando is so much smoother but i like canto better because it seems to have more of a modern culture glow to it. Mando seems old school =/

my canto is really good... my mandarin sucks...
have improved in it since 2 years back....
if your canto is good, mandarin is not that hard to learn...

[Twinp0wer1008]

CANTO..i'm trying to learn mandarin right now though

[Strawberry Cooki...]

i speak both , but ive learn canto first , maybe thats why i prefer cantonese^^

[marshey905]

I only know cantonese, but I hate how mandarin sounds..

[Flabby*]

i like both, especially girls that speak it

I speak cantonese..but I wish i spoke mando..because it's way easier...in cantonese there's just too much ways of saying one thing..and the tones and stuff..too many and are harder..

[Smirfy]

i like both because canto is every easy to learn and i like the pronounciation in mandarin

playing on words and jokes r better in canto, but songs (like the actual singing) i think sound better in mando than canto

[hagemusha]

Mandarin somehow sounds much pleasant and smoother than Canto. But I prefer Canto just because of all the slangs.

I tend to think of Mando as traditional chinese, and Canto as the new generation Chinese, lol. (no offence to those who speaks mandarin)

I like canto more. I agree that mando have a strange sound and it's old fashion.

Jen

[season]

I prefer canto cos it s my mother tongue.but I speak madarin too
however It's more difficult to sing in canto for me
but do you know that cantonese is just a accent of mandarin, not a dialiect!

[aznbaybii]

well im canto ov because i go 4 Canto ^^...but i knt speak mando properliiz soo datz y =P

[SienP]

hahah that i would choose Canto. due too that i better in canto then mando.
hehe

canto is easier to speak, but mandrain sounds better ^^

[Dipsy]

i only speak canto, but i want to speak mando too. I think it's better to know mando, because it's easier to read when u can mando

[jadedreams27]

I speak Canto, and learned the basics of Mando when I was younger, but I like the Canto more. It's just easier to understand for me. I think Mandarin is more classy though.

I speak both canto n mandarin
but canto is still the prefered language maybe due to too much of TVB.

i think being able to speak both will be useful in the long term...

[Zyphere]

Beijing accent Mandarin sounds rough and harsh, my preference lies with accents that are softer (i.e. Taiwanese accent). For conversational purposes I prefer Cantonese; there's also a lot more slang and stuff but my preferences may have been influenced by HK films/series. For songs I tend to like Mandarin better.