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I think it has a lot to do with upbringing. whee

I've generally heard people say that Mandarin is easy and pleasant to the ears but since I only really understand and speak Canto, I like it more. It's a more natural language for me and I support Hong Kong more than China so I like Canto more. Hehe...No offence people who come from China.

Yep, China = more mandarin, and Hong Kong = more cantonese.

I agree that learning Canto is much harder than Mandarin. My reasons for this are:

1) It doesn't have a proper English pronunciation which can be written like Mandarin (well, it's not well known anyway);
2) Canto's words are difficult to pronounce, whilst Mandarin's is a little easier;
3) Canto makes full use of the voice's tones (going up and down), even more so than Mandarin. If you've noticed, English stays very untoneful, lol. We don't go up and down when speaking English.

But that's my point of view. I may be wrong on a few of the points I've listed above, but so far, I think I'm correct.



Definitely. Hong Kong is mainly Cantonese based. It barely has Mandarin people, and a lot of the old people know how to speak "Hakka". In China, a large region (Guang Zhou in particular) speaks Cantonese, but of course, the rest is completely Mandarin, with some odd dialects creeping up now and again.

I have that too! xd blaugh I know I'm speaking it wrong! mrgreen

I speak Cantonese, but I personally like Mandarin better because it sounds better. ^^; Though I still like Cantonese since it's what I speak and it's what I've been exposed to my whole life. 3nodding

I perfer cantonese better than mandarin because i can only speak cantonese

I'm a Cantonese but I can't speak it sweatdrop . Thanks to HK drama, I can understand it very well. The only problem is I don't know how to speak. I speak mandarin at home.