Should I learn Cantonese or Mandarin?
 

Which one is should I learn and why.

Cantonese or Mandarin
Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese

mandarin. Many more people use the language around the world. but i'm cantonese :P i like canto better then mando.

Simplified is easier.

Mando and traditional. That way you have a half decent chance on twangers.

neither. I heard chinese in general is the hardest language to learn for non chinese people

so just because the language is hard does that mean I should stop learning it? I think not at least I'm not like that.

learn mandarin

I'd Say Mandarin because it's easier to learn and it's more widely used than Cantonese.

+1 for the twanger remark.

Learn Mandarin, its more useful as the mainlanders are starting to get rich. That way you would be a better asset to a company that have customers from China.

also, simplified chinese, that shit is easier :p

learn french instead

Mandarin.

Chinese is only useful in Hong Kong...rest of china speaks mandarin

Mandarin and traditional
Mandarin is easier to learn than Cantonese

Btw, does anyone else think Taiwanese girls trying to speak Cantonese are cute?

Cantonese is considered one of the most difficult languages to learn. There is no alphabet, and to make things worse, there are 6 tones to know. IMO, without an alphabet, it's pretty much memorization.

As for which language is more useful, I'd say Mandarin. Most good Cantonese speakers understand Mandarin anyways.

Mandarin + Traditional Chinese = Taiwan
Mandarin + Simplified Chinese = China

IMO Mandarin + Simplified Chinese is more useful.

mandarin

Yea I'm banned.

mandarin

most hongers know mandarin

so twangers, hongers and mainlanders are all good....

Chinese isn't a language. It's Cantonese or Mandarin!

+1 Cantonese, learn that first and it'll be easier to pick up Mandarin.
Funny I say this because I'm Taiwanese and so I speak Mandarin...but it's harder to learn Canto.

neither, learn a language with some beauty... italian, spanish, french

madarin and cantonese have to be the most ugly languages known to man - even german's better, and that's NOT an attractive language

Traditional Mandarin; more practical.

hahaha. Your status tricked 2 members so far :thumbsup:

That's stupid. And you've probably never seen any traditional Chinese literature and philosophy.

Linguistically speaking, no one language is superior or inferior to another.
Cultures and subcultures cause the evolution of a language, not the other way around.

That's like saying the electricity that's used to power my laptop is higher quality than the electricity you're using to power your PC.

wth are you talking about lol, using words like beauty, ugly, and attractive to describe languages

russian. they will take over north american in the future.

Mandarin.
Cantonese for your everyday talk with parents and everyone else.

Traditional or simplified is up to you.
At school (high school and Chinese school), I learned simplified.
But reading newspaper and watching tv shows and such you may encounter a lot of traditional characters.

Mandarin for sure.