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Tag: Varieties of Chinese

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Cantonese/Mandarin education: duplicity and integration

by Keith Tse January 22, 2019January 30, 2019

I have written before that one of the reasons why it is difficult to distinguish Cantonese and Mandarin as separate varieties of Chinese, let alone different languages, is that both are so deeply entrenched and entangled with one another in modern Hong Kong (HK) society and elsewhere in the Sinosphere that it is meaningless to treat […]

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