Most Chinese could only speak one local dialect before 1949 when New China was founded. More and more people are 'bilingual' nowadays, as they can speak both Mandarin and a dialect or a language of an ethnic minority.
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Related Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect? JODI PICOULT I speak a little bit of Italian, yeah. I understand more than I speak. I speak more of a dialect; my... LUKE PASQUALINO We arranged a meeting in Los Angeles with big name stars, but I had to drop the idea. I wanted to fi... GAVIN HOOD The one thing about internet language, people join it, and what quickly evolves is an 'internet ... DAVID CRYSTAL An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another... MASON COOLEY Of course when the East-Enders resettled they took their speech with them, and they and their descen... LAURA WRIGHT Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead ... HENRY WARD BEECHER To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creat... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible. KARLIE KLOSS It's not an easy task for the pandas as they are already familiar with the Sichuan dialect of their ... LI DESHENG Until the age of five, my parents spoke to me in Chinese or a combination of Chinese and English, bu... AMY TAN I am Chinese. I speak fluent Mandarin. And I go, 'Man, it's about time a Chinese person coul... LUDI LIN American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity. GORDIE HOWE We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecut... CHARLES LENOX REMOND We have to think carefully about which languages those are. French, for example, is declining as an ... DAVID GRADDOL I didn't speak Italian when I got to Italy. I had taken a couple of lessons and did a year in colleg... MARIO BATALI The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of ... ALAIN DE BOTTON What we're making isn't folk music, but savage intellectualism. We speak a language of a new world c... EUGENE HUTZ Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range ... WALT WHITMAN Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of... WALT WHITMAN I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese. SHIRLEY HUFSTEDLER I failed world geography, civics, Spanish and English. And when you fail Spanish and English, they d... TIM SCOTT When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are. BRUNO TONIOLI A lot of young people who begin taking the language say they are doing it for work. They hope that i... LI RONG The most important thing in doing business with China is to develop connections and build personal n... VIKROM KRONSAT If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company. WANG JIANLIN It is the most commonly understood dialect. DANIEL SCHULTZ I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in ... EMILY CARR Musicians speak the language of music, artists speak the language of art, I speak the language of th... THUTHULA NAMHLA DLEPU I simply came to the conclusion that I could write [dialect poetry] as well, if not better, than any... PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international languag... PHIL KNIGHT I definitely feel more connected, but I wish I could speak the language. DANNY GRAVES After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they sp... RUSSELL HOBAN After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they ... RUSSELL HOBAN The most successful hyperpowers are the ones where there was actual intermixing. Tang dynasty China ... AMY CHUA The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be ... AUDRA MCDONALD Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notio... JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE I didn't start as a dialect poet, ... talked again and again about poetry. PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing, we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety ... PAT BROWN It's an amazing thing, really, it's a legitimate language. There are only a certain amount of people... LIV TYLER It's not an easy task for the pandas, as they are already familiar with the Sichuan dialect of their... LI DESHENG Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international... PHIL KNIGHT Some speak in arabic, others in mandarin,but i speak in quotes. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Many more Arizona businesses are seeing the changing ethnic minority population shifts and the rates... HARRY GAREWAL People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language. SAM ALTMAN Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. DORIS LESSING I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're commu... E. O. WILSON I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's... LANCE REDDICK Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and... DAVID TANG One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature... GARTH RISK HALLBERG It is a language, and it touches on things oral or written language don't get to. When I first met A... BILL ROSS In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already hi... CRISS JAMI When the heart is down and the soul is heavy, the eyes can only speak the language of tears IKECHUKWU IZUAKOR You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a... THERESA MAY A lot of it was just trying to get them to be more vocalto take charge a little more. Both of them a... AMY SIEDLECKI A lot of it was just trying to get them to be more vocalto take charge a little more. Both of them... AMY SIEDLECKI Advertising practitioners are interpreters. But unlike foreign language interpreters, adpeople must ... JEF I. RICHARDS Dialect was my biggest fear. So, I spent a long time working with dialect coaches just trying to get... FRANK DILLANE To speak only one language is to do yourself a great injustice. MICHELLE TEMPLET Gossip is an idle talk that makes you look worse than the person you are talking about, and people t... UZOMA NNADI Nature is interested in only two things—to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you ... U.G. KRISHNAMURTI And even if their language skills didn't improve, which they all did, they became more confident in ... JOAN NEILSEN Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job int... DAVE CHAPPELLE One of the nice things about the United States is that, wherever you go, people speak the same langu... DEBORAH TANNEN The physical appearance, the body language, the dialect you use, the way you behave should help othe... MUHAMMAD ABDULLAH JAVED More than the divides of race, class, or gender, more than rural or urban, believer or nonbeliever, ... CHRIS HEDGES "Listen Closely, Angels speak only one language.
Which is the language of Love." ~ Tom Baker TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Most people are full of themselves and speak only the obnoxiously superficial, in other words they'r... NOVALA TAKEMOTO Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these?
Do you ne'er think who made them, and who taught
... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic. BERNARD PIVOT Not everyone can speak or master the language of truth. JAIME CONTRERAS The pool is a great mixer. Children don't care where you're from or what language you speak as long ... CYNTHIA MILLER Explain yourself when it is a must, but sometimes, in life, keep quit when people think you are mad ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A Babylonish dialect
Which learned pedants much affect. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotion... HAILEY GATES And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's b... STEPHEN KING That would be a large demand. Certainly we understand that responsibility. It is difficult to transl... GREG SLYFORD Since well before the Kung's engine noise first penetrated the forest, a conversation of sorts has b... JOHN VAILLANT As soon as I could speak, I was singing. Before I could even speak full words, I would make up ones ... ELLE VARNER Americans are way behind in studying Mandarin Chinese. The language is so hard that many students gi... BEN LAWSON I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in Englan... KUNAL NAYYAR A lot of it was just trying to get them to be more vocalâ€â€Âto take ch... AMY SIEDLECKI There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of ... CHARLES R. SWINDOLL The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a langua... RICHARD RORTY When one is silent, those around speak even more. MELINA MARCHETTA The citizens of Ludania would finally be free, no longer forced into a class system that determined ... KIMBERLY DERTING They reflect the cultural diversity of China as a multi-ethnic country. They represent the enthusias... LIU QI Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort ... RUSSELL HOBAN Chinese film needs a brand-new generation of actors and actresses and more and more people will be n... WANG LONG When two people fight, they think less and speak more. They don’t listen to the opponent. They dra... GIRDHAR JOSHI Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel. THOMAS HARDY That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority ... ROBERT BYRD You can have your own language. You can have your own dialect; you can have your own way of saying t... NICK EARLS Julio didn't speak a lick of English, but it didn't matter. He was just the warmest, most patient in... JEFF NEARY One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak i... HENRY DAVID THOREAU One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee. BEN JOHNSON Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee. BEN JONSON Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee. BEN JONSON My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife... PATRICK O'BRIAN
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