Chinese Quote by David Tang

There are a lot of colloquialisms in the Cantonese language that can never be represented aptly in Mandarin.

— Jia Zhangke

I don't speak Cantonese. My grandparents always spoke Cantonese together and my mother speaks a bit of Cantonese, but unfortunately I don't.

— Laufey

I use Mandarin, Korean and English on a daily basis and usually only use Cantonese when I'm speaking with my relatives. I don't think…

— Henry Lau

I always count in Cantonese because that's my first language.

— Jackson Wang

Language-wise, my mom and dad's dialect, they're pretty obscure. It's Chinese, but not your traditional Chinese, like Cantonese or Mandarin. It wasn't something that…

— James Wan

“learning the tones of Mandarin Chinese is difficult enough to begin with: you must distinguish between the flat first tone (m), the rising second…

— Fuchsia Dunlop

For Cantonese - because there's no standardized pinyin system - I have to have someone read it to me, and then I rewrite the…

— Daniel Wu

Cantonese will eat anything in the sky but airplanes, anything in the sea but submarines, and anything with four legs but the table.

— Amanda Bennett

So Mandarin, I picked it up, I spent a year in Beijing studying but then when you don't use it, languages, you just kinda…

— Eric Nam

I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

— Vera Wang

I speak Cantonese, and I speak Tagalog.

— Reggie Lee

When I was at Yale, I was one of the students chosen to go to China. I lived there for 1-1/2 years and I…

— Kevin Olusola