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That Guy · 05-12-2003, 11:15 PM

I thought the only difference between Mandarin and Cantonese was the spoken dialect. I thought Chinese characters were universal to all readers. At least, that's how my Chinese classmates taught me.

They also answered my questions about looking up words in a Chinese dictionary.

05-12-2003, 11:15 PM	#11
That Guy He who reads, sometimes writes. Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: at the keyboard Posts: 791	I thought the only difference between Mandarin and Cantonese was the spoken dialect. I thought Chinese characters were universal to all readers. At least, that's how my Chinese classmates taught me. They also answered my questions about looking up words in a Chinese dictionary.