Comments on: How do you write "Chinese" (language) in Mandarin and Cantonese? http://www.chineselanguagenow.com/how-do-you-write-chinese-language-in-mandarin-and-cantonese.php Learn to speak Chinese today Fri, 27 May 2011 12:15:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: bryan_q http://www.chineselanguagenow.com/how-do-you-write-chinese-language-in-mandarin-and-cantonese.php/comment-page-1#comment-699 bryan_q Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:05:09 +0000 http://www.chineselanguagenow.com/how-do-you-write-chinese-language-in-mandarin-and-cantonese.php#comment-699 Chinese in the Chinese written language = 汉语 / 漢語, 中文, 中国话 / 中國話, 华语 / 華語, etc... There's already a website which does what you do, which I usually WOULD NOT recommend to Newbies like you, but I have to. Chinese when written is the same 90% of the time for ALL dialects!!! Only that little percentage is for those words which doesn't exist in Mandarin but does exists in other dialects. PS... Please learn Chinese FIRST before you make the website, or visit other Chinese language websites already made by many others whether the webmaster / webmistress is Chinese or not!!! PPS I've also included a music video called 中国话 / 中國話, "Zhong guo hua" by a girl group S.H.E. from Taiwan. Chinese in the Chinese written language = 汉语 / 漢語, 中文, 中国话 / 中國話, 华语 / 華語, etc…
There’s already a website which does what you do, which I usually WOULD NOT recommend to Newbies like you, but I have to.

Chinese when written is the same 90% of the time for ALL dialects!!! Only that little percentage is for those words which doesn’t exist in Mandarin but does exists in other dialects.

PS… Please learn Chinese FIRST before you make the website, or visit other Chinese language websites already made by many others whether the webmaster / webmistress is Chinese or not!!!

PPS I’ve also included a music video called 中国话 / 中國話, "Zhong guo hua" by a girl group S.H.E. from Taiwan.

]]> By: Summer http://www.chineselanguagenow.com/how-do-you-write-chinese-language-in-mandarin-and-cantonese.php/comment-page-1#comment-700 Summer Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:05:09 +0000 http://www.chineselanguagenow.com/how-do-you-write-chinese-language-in-mandarin-and-cantonese.php#comment-700 Mandarin: 中文 Cantonese: 粤语 Mandarin: 中文
Cantonese: 粤语

]]> By: Liuzhou Laowai http://www.chineselanguagenow.com/how-do-you-write-chinese-language-in-mandarin-and-cantonese.php/comment-page-1#comment-701 Liuzhou Laowai Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:05:09 +0000 http://www.chineselanguagenow.com/how-do-you-write-chinese-language-in-mandarin-and-cantonese.php#comment-701 You are making a website with multilingual facilities, but can't write the names of the languages? How does that work then? You are making a website with multilingual facilities, but can’t write the names of the languages?

How does that work then?

]]> By: 日本 http://www.chineselanguagenow.com/how-do-you-write-chinese-language-in-mandarin-and-cantonese.php/comment-page-1#comment-702 日本 Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:05:09 +0000 http://www.chineselanguagenow.com/how-do-you-write-chinese-language-in-mandarin-and-cantonese.php#comment-702 Chinese (Chinese language) in Mandarin it says 汉语 - hàn yǔ instead Chinese (Chinese language) in Cantonese it says 中文. Chinese (Chinese language) in Mandarin it says 汉语 – hàn yǔ instead Chinese (Chinese language) in Cantonese it says 中文.

]]> By: longliveabcdefg http://www.chineselanguagenow.com/how-do-you-write-chinese-language-in-mandarin-and-cantonese.php/comment-page-1#comment-703 longliveabcdefg Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:05:09 +0000 http://www.chineselanguagenow.com/how-do-you-write-chinese-language-in-mandarin-and-cantonese.php#comment-703 For the sake of not mis-educating people, could you please learn some Chinese yourself first before launching that website, and I am pleading you sincerely. For the sake of not mis-educating people, could you please learn some Chinese yourself first before launching that website, and I am pleading you sincerely.

]]> By: Yl http://www.chineselanguagenow.com/how-do-you-write-chinese-language-in-mandarin-and-cantonese.php/comment-page-1#comment-704 Yl Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:05:09 +0000 http://www.chineselanguagenow.com/how-do-you-write-chinese-language-in-mandarin-and-cantonese.php#comment-704 You mean you're designing something like those translation websites, right? Under this circumstance, the difference is not between Mandarin and Cantonese; it should be between simplified and traditional Chinese. Simplified Chinese:简体中文 Traditional Chinese: 繁體中文 Hope that helps!!! You mean you’re designing something like those translation websites, right?

Under this circumstance, the difference is not between Mandarin and Cantonese; it should be between simplified and traditional Chinese.

Simplified Chinese:简体中文
Traditional Chinese: 繁體中文

Hope that helps!!!

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