That is so sad. I wish Cantonese was more promoted.

I totally understand! The thing is that the government is promoting and requiring Mandarin-only education starting from preschools, so kids end up not having an academic environment where they can practice and speak Cantonese. It's a huge problem.

Same thing was happening to minorities like Kazakhs in Soviet Union, our language was being replaced with Russian but luckily Soviet Union collapsed and Kazakhstan got its independence so now Kazakh is taking it back.

I was UK born and raised in HK. My first language is also Cantonese, and I do not wish to see Hong Kong loose this uniqueness, culture and heritage!

I really hope the youth in Guangzhou will make an effort to preserve Cantonese despite the government's attempt of erasure.

SAVE CANTONESE!

Malaysians still speak Cantonese

In 2007 it wasn’t but when I went back in 2013 I already noticed everyone speak Mandarin. Except for my cousins/relatives I feel like I have to use English if I do go back another time

CCP’s crimes

Yeah I went to Guangzhou speaking Cantonese(I'm American but my mom taught me fluent Cantonese) and I found that people didn't understand me and didn't speak it back. I understand Mandarin because my mother speaks both but I'm not confident in it. It really makes me sad. I'm really proud that I speak Cantonese. It's nice that it's still in Hong Kong but it's a different accent and it doesn't feel the same.

Cantonese is a language not a dialect, you used to have a nation speaking it but after Han chinese conquer somewhere 200s BC, its dying

This is really sad, who is a Cantonese person without knowing or speaking Cantonese , now just any other Han Chinese person, this is sad, the world should try and preserve this dialect so it won’t die out like what’s already happening to Shanghainese dialect

So if I were to speak Cantonese in the streets, asking for directions, I would have a hard time?

You're so right about Guangzhou. I visited there back in 1992 and our Tour Guide from Guangzhou couldn't speak Cantonese, but only Mandarin. All 30 of us (from California), laughed at him for being a "Fake" Tour Guide. He apologized, but we didn't understand him, one bit. LOL! 🤣

In China, Guangdong Province did not set Cantonese as an official language, so not many people in Guangdong Province can speak Cantonese.

This is sad. It's not only in china that cantonese language is dying out. In south east asia too, maybe not in malaysia or singapore. Im chinese cantonese from cambodia, myself i dont speak or understand the language, samething for my chinese vietnamese friends. ☹️😥

You are correct the reason why it's dying off in Guangzhou it has to do with the Chinese Communist Party goal of the linguistic Unity making Mandarin the sole language of the Mainland. Next is Hong Kong where Cantonese is also spoken alongside traditional Chinese characters which are supposed to be replaced by simplified Chinese. Is it really possible to write Cantonese in simplified Chinese or not. In Hong Kong traditional Chinese Hong Kong style is used however around the airport Cantonese is written in Traditional Chinese Taiwan text to cater for the Taiwanese airline crews.

Any chance they might not be from Guangzhou? Guangzhou is the capital - so you get a lot of people from neighboring cities to work - or school?(McDonald’s examples)

Cantonese is to China what Catalan is to Spain.

In a small country like South Korea, Standard Seoul Korean is the official language, and it discourages the use of regional dialects.

I'm British born Chinese and can only just about have a conversation in Cantonese. I was thinking on improving my Cantonese, but it seems like I'm better off just learning Mandarin. HMMM

So sad..Cantonese widely used in Hongkong and Macao only..

好小人講廣東話😢 We need to protect our language 2000 yes history and culture I refuse to let it be wiped out

Its funny sometimes I would say nei hou ma to people in china from guangzhou and they would tell me they dont speak cantonese. But I do it purposely 😂

As long as Cantonese entertainment is still available and popular in Guangdong province, Cantonese will not die out that quick. Hong Kong entertainment is still very popular and Guangzhou has the permission to create mainland Chinese Cantonese language programmings as well as entertainment for the television stations. Also announcements in trains and buses and even store announcements are in both Mandarin and Cantonese. Although, it is somewhat declining, they are in much better privileged standings than all the other Chinese languages that are not Mandarin as the other Chinese languages do not have the privileges at all or extremely limited in quantity and popularity and very low budgeted. If the Cantonese entertainment's popularity starts declining and as well as disappearing from the medias, that is when the Cantonese speakers really have to worry.

I went to Shenzhen and everyone spoke Mandarin, nobody spoke Cantonese, Guangzhou too, I was riding the bullettrain and no one spoke cantonese

....yes! I agreed with you, Ameri-Cantonese!!!! Hope you should partition both your state and federal govt to make Cantonese a compulsory subject for ACs. While you are at this subject, assist for ABCs of different ethnicity to partition for their dilect. Unfortunately, in my opinion you will fail. Because most country will used the predominant lauguage (ie standard English, Italy, Japanese, and so on) as their medium of instruction for the national education.

Save Hoisan Hua!

The only place in China where anyone spoke Cantonese as a first language is Hong Kong and Macau

No wonder you are reaching Cantonese on KZfaq 😂

It's sad

Cantonese is just a dialect in mainland China, Taiwan, S.E. Asia, etc. Similar to Fu Jian, Hakka, Fu Chow, Hainan, etc. The only Chinese national and official language is Mandarin. Currently, Cantonese is still one of the official languages in Hong Kong beside Mandarin and English. However, Cantonese will not be treated as official language in the future because Chinese government only recognize one standard national official language. More and more schools in Hong Kong and Macau are teaching in Mandarin now, Cantonese is getting lesser.

我討厭普通話（雖然不在台灣）