@jnfrd it is mutually unintelligible but many Cantonese speakers do Mandarin lessons now due to language imperialism and also economic activity. Mandarin speakers mostly don’t understand Cantonese at all unless they study it somehow
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Mandarin is the dominant language in China, right? The one I'm most likely to hear on Chinese television?
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