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[quote=LAO3HAN4RICK,234717]Hello, As nice as your parents might be, I am afraid their advice to learn Cantonese might have been mis-guided unless you plan to live and work in Hong Kong. My wife is Chinese-Vietnamese and she learned Mandarin as a child in Vietnam. Mandarin is the official language of China (Pǔtōnghuà). The traditional Chinese characters use in Hong Kong (IMO) are much more difficult to learn than the simplified characters of Mandarin. See the following link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Mandarin As a first year student of Chinese, I had the option to learn either simplified or traditional character writing. I chose simplified, which already has enough stroke characters to learn compared to traditional characters. The spoken dialect is different as well. For sure, Mandarin will be the language spoken at the Olympics in 2008. Hope I got it most right. Good luck! Rick [/quote]
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