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[quote=DESTRUCKDOZ,301606]Hi Leonardo,

Please, call me Danny, its my real name. Or 林正成 is cool too haha, I'm kidding. My parents were born  in Hainan in south China. So they originate from China. But we don't speak mainstream Cantonese or Mandarin. I can't find any information on the internet about what we kind of dialect we speak but its somewhere between Cantonese and Mandarin that very little people speak this dialect. I do know that the people who speak this dialect live predominantly in Guangxi, Guangdong and Fuijan and that we are a subgroup of Hakka but the number of people still speaking this dialect is disappearing very quickly. Such as in my own family, my sisters and I were taught to speak this type of Cantonese Mandarin and nobody outside our family can understand us. Such as in the local Chinese community, people are always correcting my Cantonese as if Mandarin was my mother tongue and vice versa. Also many of my uncles and aunts are not teaching this dialect because its becoming obsolete here in America and instead teaching mainstream Cantonese.

I strongly agree with what my Aunts and Uncles are doing because since my sisters and I only know this rare dialect, we are hugely disadvantaged because we can only understand a third of what most people are trying to tell us. But I am glad that my parents taught us this dialect because even though we are learning the mainstream Cantonese and Mandarin in our early 20's because this rare dialect is the foundation that is making it a little easier to learn the mainstream language. But its not the same if you speak mainstream Cantonese and Mandarin to learn my dialect because its insanely confusing because you get lost at where the Cantonese ends and the Mandarin begins.

Oh and Thank you again, Leonardo for the helpful translations. Thank you to Discovery as well and anybody who looked.

Danny[/quote]

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