hahaha, Me too! so funny. he's slick. quiet and you have to pay attention carefully to Lee. lol these two are so fun.

The way he looked in the camera after 😂😂😂

that got me cracking up

It's so safe

Legit launching inside

我在美国十几年，第一次通过你们的视频知道Compton 哈哈哈哈哈😊

Nonzero chance that Lee's a fan of N.W.A.

Can I ask you why you prefer canto? I'm learning Mandarin but Cantonese sounds really interesting, maybe I'll start learning it one day

@@r0mashka23 Mandarin, although most common, is also the most modern form of Chinese. Cantonese, while being spoken a lot, is an older form of Chinese and overall sounds better in my opinion.

@@cccEngineer oh I see, thanks for your response, have a great day 💕

"Languages" vs "dialects" is mostly a political thing. For example, India is split into states, so they call it languages. China's central government has more power, so they call it dialects.

The line I toss out is "a language is a dialect with an army and a navy". As a counterpoint to Chinese's mutually unintelligible Cantonese and Mandarin, Swedish and Danish *are* mutually intelligible...but shared history means the first two are dialects, and separate history means the last two are languages.

@@kylekonop4801 Danish and Swedish are both North Germanic languages, so there has to be some shared history there, right?

@@dkhl65 Some, certainly, but a few centuries as separate nations means that they speak different *languages*, not different *dialects*.

Languages, by all objective measures, untarnished by centralized imperialist politics.

江西南北差异大，这应该是南部山区的，更像客家。不是南昌话

Yeah some people have told me that too!

NO IT DOESN'T. STOP SAYING THAT. (Hakka speaker)

Some people can understand, some people can't, I guess it depends on their personal background and interests.

No.

非也

It’s also possible that she just curled her hair.

Yes, that is Taiwanese (台語), which is a variety of Hokkien.

That is not true. The oldest dialect of all is Hokkien, if you want to consider it as the first language in the ancient China. It then evolved into Cantonese. There is a way to prove that Mandarin came after. If you read the ancient poems, the characters do not rhythm fluently in Mandarin. Just because Mandarin is used primarily in China nowadays, that doesn't make other ones dialects and making Mandarin the only 'Chinese'. The same applies to the writing systems as well. You don't call 'Simplified Chinese' being the only system while completely ignoring 'Traditional Chinese'. Chinese is just a general term. Simplified Chinese only came in less than 80 years ago. It was around that time when people in mainland China were being forced to practice Mandarin. That doesn't mean Mandarin only existed 80 years ago.

There is another way to learn that 'Chinese' is just a general term. According to the Hong Kong government, the official languages and writing systems are English and Chinese. However, it doesn't explicitly describing which Chinese dialect or Chinese writing are the official ones. Therefore, any Chinese dialects or Chinese writing systems can be considered as official.

terrible trolling 0/10