I'm pretty sure not all people in canda speak english.
2007-07-03 09:18:18 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
I have ordered chinese food for delivery both in english and canada with modest difficutly in both
2007-07-05 05:46:27 · answer #1 · answered by Daryl H 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The Ideographic written language we know as "Chinese" is in fact the written language for several spoken dialects. An Ideographic language is used so multiple spoken languages can use the same written languages. It's not uncommon for people to be able to write to each other but have no ability to SPEAK to each other. Imagine for a moment that a single written language was used by everyone who spoked French, English, German or Spanish and you can start to get the idea.
Mandarin, Gan, Hakka, Min, Wu, Xiang and Cantonese are some of the more common Chinese dialects.
One common comedic device used in Chinese comedies is to have two characters speaking different dialects, with the humor coming from the fact that they are talking past each other but are unable to understand each other. There's a similar subplot in the movie "Love, Actually"
2007-07-03 17:16:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
No, there are different dialects and many people in China create their own language to correspond to their religion.
Some examples of common Chinese dialects are mandarin, cantonese, wu, min, hakka, xiang and gan.
Chinese is a little more complicated than English!
2007-07-03 16:23:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't get the Canada and English reference. French is the official language in places like Montreal and Quebec. Considering Canada was settled by the French just as much as the english.
As far as China. Most speak Chinese, but there are different dialects that are broken down into different languages (ie. Mandarin)
Same thing with Spanish, it is different in Spain then it is in Mexico.
2007-07-03 16:22:50 · answer #4 · answered by pa 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No, not all citizens of China speak "Chinese". Of course, "Chinese" is not really a language, but a cover term for a half dozen different languages. "Chinese" as taught in the US usually refers to Mandarin, and the majority of people of China learn Mandarin either as their native language or as a second language. But there are millions of people in China who never learn Mandarin. While the other "Chinese" languages (Yue, Min, Hakka, etc.) have millions of speakers, there are a couple hundred other languages spoken in China with hundreds or thousands of speakers. These languages include Hmong-Mien languages, Tai languages, Austro-Asiatic languages, Turkic languages, Tibeto-Burman languages, and Mongolic languages.
2007-07-03 16:30:02 · answer #5 · answered by Taivo 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Chinese no, there are different forms and dialect, some chinese speak japanes, mandarin, and other asian forms of speech. However there written language is very similar.
2007-07-03 16:20:47 · answer #6 · answered by Justin S 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is more than one Chinese language. Mandarin is the most widespread. There are also Cantonese and Hakka.,Tibetan,Mongolian,Tungus,Miao,Yue,Kam Tai,Loloish,Gan and Wu There are also many local/tribal languages as well as the Turic languages
2007-07-03 16:25:05 · answer #7 · answered by James O 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course not. There are some Chinese people who were not born in China and were never exposed to their native tongue language...
But I'm sure that all those who live in China speak good Chinese...
2007-07-03 16:21:57 · answer #8 · answered by ✿Purple✿ 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Not, there are people that when they were kids their parents had to go to another countries, thats why a porcentage of chinese people dont know the chinese thats is funny
2007-07-03 17:08:03 · answer #9 · answered by MD. Cortex! 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
there are a lot of chinese people living in other countries that don'e speak chinese
2007-07-03 16:20:40 · answer #10 · answered by Staveros 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋