Should chengyu be used in general conversation?

[physics]

You could've done both though!

It'd be hard to fit it in, with the rest of my subjects
And I don't speak at home, so I'm disadvantaged already

Ohh that means I'm disadvantaged too

dw i have no idea what chinese is ...those characters look hard so i basically use enlgish words to translate chinese ...
eg. lmao to this 'oil fried ghost' (translate to chinese? lol?) get me...this is how i speak at home...so fail

[the.watchman]

You could've done both though!

It'd be hard to fit it in, with the rest of my subjects
And I don't speak at home, so I'm disadvantaged already

Ohh that means I'm disadvantaged too

dw i have no idea what chinese is ...those characters look hard so i basically use enlgish words to translate chinese ...
eg. lmao to this 'oil fried ghost' (translate to chinese? lol?) get me...this is how i speak at home...so fail

... lol
Doesnt sound right in english

[physics]

You could've done both though!

It'd be hard to fit it in, with the rest of my subjects
And I don't speak at home, so I'm disadvantaged already

Ohh that means I'm disadvantaged too

dw i have no idea what chinese is ...those characters look hard so i basically use enlgish words to translate chinese ...
eg. lmao to this 'oil fried ghost' (translate to chinese? lol?) get me...this is how i speak at home...so fail

... lol
Doesnt sound right in english

'
in canto dude!

[the.watchman]

Nono I know what you mean (the fried dough stuff, i do understand a fair bit of canto)
I'm just saying that ghost makes it sound weird

[physics]

Nono I know what you mean (the fried dough stuff, i do understand a fair bit of canto)
I'm just saying that ghost makes it sound weird

well live with it...i dont think my language is canto anymore....O_O
lmao i was talking to someone and i was like i ate 'that' and then they were lmao about it...

[the.watchman]

Nono I know what you mean (the fried dough stuff, i do understand a fair bit of canto)
I'm just saying that ghost makes it sound weird

well live with it...i dont think my language is canto anymore....O_O
lmao i was talking to someone and i was like i ate 'that' and then they were lmao about it...

LOL it's ok

[darkphoenix]

Hahah yay canto ftw!

[GerrySly]

Hahah yay canto ftw!

What does written canto look like? I've only heard people speak it lol and I don't understand a word of it.

What is VCE Chinese? Mandarin? Can you choose between cantonese and mandarin?

[TrueTears]

Hahah yay canto ftw!

What does written canto look like? I've only heard people speak it lol and I don't understand a word of it.

What is VCE Chinese? Mandarin? Can you choose between cantonese and mandarin?

I think canto looks the same as mandarin just pronounced different...

[monokekie]

Mandarin is the official Chinese language, this is why Cantonese tend to start studying chinese now =)

[monokekie]

haha, I agree. I write faster in English than in Chinese =]

[monokekie]

Maybe you could try using microsoft Pinyin New Experience Input Style, and try typing the pinyin of a long phrase altogether, normally the correct words wil automatically pop-up. But still, its quite hard at the beginning until you eventually get used to it

[darkphoenix]

Actually i think Canto uses traditional characters. Or TT may be right, just pronunciation is different, because canto is more spoken, hence why only mandarin can be studied.

[monokekie]

Mind you, cantonese can also be studied, if you have seen the Newspaper in HongKong, you will see the difference between the two

[simonhu81292]

the only difference in written cantonese is that we use 方言。。
such as in mando 我不想
in canto 我唔想
and yeah.. in HK they use traditional