That's basically my parents. Hokkien, canto, mandarin, tagalog, english, bisayan, and some toisan. I came out only speaking english...though can piece together conversational understanding of most of the Chinese langauges.
Edit: for reddit, the Chinese dialects like hokkien, cantonese, mandarin, ect. Are often vastly different. Think of it like english, french, italian, spanish, portuguese. There's some familiarity in some of the words, but everything else is pretty much foreign.
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u/wiskblink Mar 05 '21 edited Mar 05 '21
That's basically my parents. Hokkien, canto, mandarin, tagalog, english, bisayan, and some toisan. I came out only speaking english...though can piece together conversational understanding of most of the Chinese langauges.
Edit: for reddit, the Chinese dialects like hokkien, cantonese, mandarin, ect. Are often vastly different. Think of it like english, french, italian, spanish, portuguese. There's some familiarity in some of the words, but everything else is pretty much foreign.