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tech bro accidentally sent their son to Japan to study Chinese(hexbear.net)

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CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.net
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Imagine if the OP sent their son to some other Chinese diaspora and comes back with fluent Wenzhounese and is completely unable to communicate with 99.95% of Mandarin and Cantonese speakers

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Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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“So do you speak Mandarin or Cantonese?”

“Wenzhounese.”

“When Joe needs you to do what?”

“No, I speak Wenzhounese. It’s the most divergent form of Wu Chinese. 5 million native speakers. Spoken in Zhejiang province.”

“…So do you speak Mandarin or Cantonese?”

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