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#76 Cantonese and the uniqueness of Chinese dialects

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What Is a Dialect?

If you're an absolute beginner, focusing on a standard course like the h s k, with no linguistic curiosity and no interest in history, then you might not like this. But if you live in china, or you have lived in ch China,  this is for you. Or if you have an interest in china's changing society over the past hundred years of modern history, this is foryou. I just to put a finer point on it, this is about linguistics, which some people think its like about like learning to speak a language. Linguistics is more like learning about a language. Oh, ka. So let's briefly talk about what is a dialect

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