In China. How many languages do you speak?

[YoshidaYui]

[LoisB]

1. Serious question: Is "Chinese" a "language" and Mandarin, Catonese, etc.

considered dialects of the Chinese language?

[YoshidaYui]

3. YES

CHINESE is a language, and Mandarin, Cantonese and Yi are considered dialects. In Japan Tokyo Bin is different from Osaka Bin or Hokkido Bin.

[LoisB]

5. Thank you.

[Wednesdays]

7. So, since I'm studying Japanese,

(Which I understand is the Tokyo dialect), I should be studying Osaka Bin and Hokkaido Bin as well?

[hunter]

2. Too many people in the U.S.A. know very little about the rest of the world.

This is very troubling as the rest of the world passes us by.

Trump, of course, is making everything worse.

[YoshidaYui]

4. I totally agree

I have friends who speak more then two languages and even one friend who speaks Korean, Japanese, Cantonese, Mandarin and English. She of course works out at our local airport as a translator.

[LoisB]

6. Forgive me for asking what apparently seems to have been thought of as a

display of ignorance.