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03-01-2010, 12:24 AM

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Originally Posted by duo797 View Post
Really? I was under the impression that Chinese-Americans and Chinese-Canadians all spoke mandarin but wrote using traditional characters instead of simplified.
You are sort of mixing up with Taiwanese and oversea Chinese altogether.

Don't forget to notice "thousands" of Cantonese/Teochew/Taishanese speakers of Chinese in USA and Canada. Mandarin is only recently popular (as in since the 1990s) among North American Chinese.


JapanForum's semi-resident amateur linguist.

Last edited by komitsuki : 03-01-2010 at 12:34 AM.
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