website Posted August 19, 2004 at 03:54 PM Report Posted August 19, 2004 at 03:54 PM Here is a good article about dying Chinese dialects: http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,4386,267860,00.html? Learning anything other than Mandarin is as useful as learning Navajo, Hawaiian, Latin, Egyptian, Gaelic, or Welsh. Even the natives don't want to learn these languages. Quote
TSkillet Posted August 19, 2004 at 06:30 PM Report Posted August 19, 2004 at 06:30 PM and Cantonese has no use? Quote
roddy Posted August 20, 2004 at 12:11 AM Report Posted August 20, 2004 at 12:11 AM Navajo, Hawaiian, Latin, Egyptian, Gaelic, or Welsh. Even the natives don't want to learn these languages. Navajo, Hawaiian and Egyptian I can't speak for. Welsh is in extremely good shape for a language that's lived next to English for so long, Gaelic still has plenty of life left in it, and who on Earth is a native speaker of Latin? Roddy Quote
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