What is the prettiest Chinese dialect?

Northeastern Mandarin is beautiful and stardard,too,especial Harbin. Harbin dialect is even more close to stardard Mandarin than Beijing dialect.

Which Chinese dialect has the most tones?

Bobai dialect
Bobai dialect is widely cited as having the most tones of any variety of Chinese, though in fact it only has six, the same as most Yue dialects.

Is Shanghainese worth learning?

Yes. You can learn Shanghainese by all means as long as you have the GEUNINE INTEREST in it. However, it is also necessary to learn Standard Mandarin as some residents in Shanghai today are migrants from other parts of mainland china, so they may not understand or speak Shanghainese.

Which Chinese dialect has least tones?

“tone sandhi” sometimes adds to the number of tone in this dialect,but there are no ‘minimal pairs” with these sandhi-tones so they are not counted as separte. uilux wrote: The only Chinese that has no tones is the one spoken by some minorities in northwest China. For example, the Mandarin spoken by some Uyghur.

How many tones Cantonese have?

There are 6 different tones in Cantonese. You must rise, maintain or lower the relative pitch of your voice to “sing” each word.

Is Shanghainese a hard language?

Shanghainese is really hard to learn and not useful outside Shanghai. Moreover, the language in Shanghai remote district(e.g. ChongMing, SongJiang, etc.), is different from Shanghainese. If you will stay in Shanghai for a long time and you have a good command of Chinese, then just have a try.

Is Cantonese a language or a dialect?

The answer may be “yes” to both. Cantonese, most linguists would say, is indisputably a separate language. It is at least as different from Putonghua as any two Romance languages are from each other. It is spoken by roughly as many people as, say, Italian.

Does Cantonese still have an entering tone?

Many southern dialects still have entering tone. Cantonese is not the same as Middle Chinese, but a descendant. In fact, all today’s dialects are its descendants. You see: Cantonese is from a language which all other dialects (including Mandarin) are from, so Cantonese is a dialect of Chinese, not a new language.

What is a dialect in China?

In China, the term “dialect” (方言, fāng yán) has been used by the government to refer generally to individual Han Chinese languages spoken in China.

Why is Cantonese not taught in schools?

In spite of its relatively large number of speakers, Cantonese is neither taught in schools nor used in government communications, mostly because of its lack of a standard written form and official status. In a nod to the norms of the land of the Chinese language, countries like Singapore have adopted the same labelling system.