"After staring for awhile, he asked, “Which part of Korea do you come from? Your language sounds Korean but I don’t really understand it.”" What's it like to live in China and speak the Devil-Language
Then the wenzhou people are functionally bilingual because they speak Mandarin also, I suppose, for example when they work with the Chinese people of other regions. I had heard that in China the dialects are not mutually intelligible, but like separated languages. I've read also that a dialect is in the same country, but a language has an army and a navy because it is in a different country, although this is not always correct because of course English is USA's and Great Britian's language, but they are not the same country at all. But in Dutch, it's true: Flemish is in effect Dutch, of course some flemish's dialects are not comprehensible, but this isn't different for a Dutch or Flemish of other region (not West Flanders, for exmaple). I suppose that if China were splitted up in some different countries, then those dialects would not be "Chinese" but "Wenzhou" , "Mandarin" etc The if Europe were one country, the Romance languages would not be French, Italian, Spanish etc but they would be Latin dialects, the Germanic ones German dialects, the slavic ones Slavonic dialects etc etc....Or Indo-European dialects. It's funny that a Korean has thought that they were Korean but then didn't understand hahahahahaa. I want to know, when they write their language, are Mandarin and Wenzhou mutually intelligible?
The Chinese believe that any language 1) using Chinese characters and 2) spoken in China is actually not a language at all, but a dialect of Chinese. Personally, I speak American. However, the British speak a dialect of European Unionese.
Hahahahahahahaa LOL. But the Scottish speak Scottish and the Welsh speak Welsh, only the English speak a dialect of Unionese. I speak Belgian, the Swiss speak Swiss, and the French speak a dialect of Unionese. Hahahahaah The Canadians speak Canadian or Quebecois, the Mexicans speak Mexican, Chileans speak Chilly, and the Spanish speak a dialect of Unionese. Then the Austrians speak Austrian and the Germans speak a dialect of Unionese.
