Spoken officially in the province of Guangdong and many neighbouring areas, Cantonese is totally spoken by over 80 million speakers across the globe.
It is also popularly spoken in Macau, Southern China and Hongkong along with many different countries overseas, such as Vietnam, Malaysia, Cambodia and Singapore. It essentially belongs to the Sino-Tibetan Language group and is similar in terms of vocabulary to Mandarin but shares many differences with it, in terms of Grammar. The two languages are mutually unintelligible because of the same reason.
Let’s now see the scope of learning the Chinese language.
There are many different languages in the world and all these languages tend to have their own set of benefits and advantages of Mastering them.
In fact, in order to avail all the benefits of a target language, an individual must at least achieve decent fluency in the language if not proficiency in the language. Considering Chinese colours represent almost 16% of the entire world population, there is no doubt that Chinese is 100% of the most popular languages in the world.
The Chinese language primarily has two major dialects – Mandarin as well as Cantonese.
While Mandarin is considered to be the most popular version of Chinese, Cantonese is also quite popularly spoken in many different parts of China and overseas. This essentially means that Cantonese Chinese also has many different benefits of mastering it and in order to avail them, one must achieve proficiency or a decent level of fluency by learning Cantonese.
So, I would try to discuss all the different advantages and benefits of learning Cantonese Chinese as we move ahead.
Hong Kong is considered to be the richest city in the world and currently is the third largest financial global centre. It also ranks the world’s most competitive economy apart from being one of the most important financial hubs of the entire continent of Asia.
Cantonese is primarily spoken in the entirety of Hong Kong and to truly enjoy the city and navigate within and to be able to communicate with the locals, I strongly suggest mastering this language.
In fact, legally speaking, Hong Kong is quite a unique region as it enjoys a totally different level of freedom in both an administrative aspect and a legal aspect when compared to the rest of the country. The language also has a certain level of a historic aspect connected to it as it is one of the oldest dialects of Chinese itself. This dialect is commonly utilized in other Chinese communities residing in the USA, Australia and Canada so learning Cantonese may in all possibilities be beneficial to you
Throughout this blog, we have discussed all the different benefits and advantages that constitute the scope of Cantonese.
There is absolutely no doubt in regards to the influential and beneficial status of Cantonese. With that said, it is still considered to be one of the toughest languages for any English native speaker to master and hence, being able to avail all the benefits of mastering it becomes rather important for any language enthusiast. Cantonese is also a super beautiful and vibrant language to master which originates from a unique culture.