Re: Should I learn mandarin or cantonese?

Hi Barky

Mandarin is a nick name of (official) Chinese and it is spoken in all the
mainland of China. Cantonese is a dialect mainly used in Canton(or called
Guangdong Provice now) and Hong Kong. Areas like Taiwan and Singa****e
speak
Mandarin.

BTW Hong Kong begins to use Mandarin now.

Cheers and good luck.

Sam


"Barky Bark" <barkybark@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Hi, I'm an American studying law with an emphasis in international
> business
> law in china.  I'm going to be learning chinese so that hopefully by the
> time I graduate I can at lease tell employers (here in California) that
> I'm
> reasonably proficient in the language.
>
> My questions is: should I learn Mandarin or Cantonese?  I need a
language
> with the widest potential application.  I hear that Cantonese is the
> trendy
> language to learn and of course it's used in Hong Kong but should I
stick
> with Mandarin which I'm leaning toward?
>
> Thanks very much for any input you might have!