32: Fallen Leaves: The Chinese Languages (with Wu Mei-Shin, Ye Jingting, and Israel Lai)
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The Ins and Outs of Chinese Dialects
We're talking to Ume Shin and Ye Jing Ting about what some people call Chinese, which is actually a massive group of languages. You should go listen to it if you can understand Cantonese. We have normally, we say that we have seven or 10 different dialect groups in China. For instance, the Wu dialect is actually not a language or a dialect, but a group of different dialects.
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