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32: Fallen Leaves: The Chinese Languages (with Wu Mei-Shin, Ye Jingting, and Israel Lai)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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The Differences Between Mandarin and Shanghai-Ness

Guanyi: There is a huge difference between Shanghai-ness and Mandarin Chinese. Maishin: The words come from the same ancestors, but then it's split at some point in the history. Guanyi: I can also try to speak the same sentence with Cantonese and Hakka dialect.

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