“Still love this podcast. Not only has it helped me study Mandarin better, it has also helped me teach my students English better. Loved the most recent episode about dialects. I am in 河南 right now and sometimes if older people want to talk to me they only speak 河南话. So hard. My students ask me if I can speak Henan Hua and if I answer using the one or two words I do know, they laugh uproariously. Funny story, right before I came here, I met a Chinese person in the US and I told her I was moving here and wanted to learn Mandarin and she told me do not learn the Henan accent or I would sound like a thug. I don’t know if she meant Henan Hua or just an accent but it’s pretty funny. I don’t know if I sound like a thug or not: since Covid traveling anywhere in or out of China can be difficult so I haven’t asked anyone not from Henan. Have you guys heard of any other associations with other particular accent? The way we might consider a British accent to be more “refined” for some reason?”
kandra5 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
12/01/21