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Hello everyone.
Welcome to the Internet and my name is 

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today we're going to look at the 
differences between Chinese and Chinese.

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Well,
what I mean is we'll be looking at two 

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of the many Chinese languages,
Mandarin and Cantonese.

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As I mentioned in my video on Chinese.
Chinese is not a single language,

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but rather a number of dialect groups 
that are united by a common writing 

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system.
The spoken languages are different and 

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generally mutually unintelligible,
which is definitely the case with 

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Mandarin and Cantonese,
which are both Semitic languages or 

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Chinese languages spoken in China.
Mandarin is spoken by 960 million native

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speakers,
mainly in the north of China,

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but as now used all over mainland China 
and Taiwan as the official language of 

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government,
media and education,

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and it's one of the four official 
languages of Singapore as well.

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Cantonese on the other hand is spoken by
50 to 60 million native speakers in Hong

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Kong.
Macau go on zillow and some adjacent 

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areas as well as in Chinese diaspora 
communities around the world.

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It's part of the wider UAA branch of 
Chinese.

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Before we get into the main room.