This website is sponsored by Learn
Chinese EZ, an excellent resource for online Chinese
lessons, including both Mandarin and Cantonese
lessons.
If you're new to learning Chinese, your first step should
be to determine which dialect you wish to learn. In Chinese, there are
two major dialects: Mandarin vs. Cantonese:
If you want to speak the national language of China and
Taiwan, or if you're learning Chinese for general academic purposes, you'll
probably want to learn
Mandarin Chinese.
If you want to speak the dialect of Hong Kong, or be
able to communicate with the majority of Chinese living overseas (in US,
UK, Canada, etc), then you'll most likely want to learn
Cantonese.
If you're still not sure, here's some more info about
the differences
between Mandarin and Cantonese.
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