Do you know about the local dialects of China?

In China, people come from many different regions and many speak their own languages. This makes it difficult to learn other dialects if you aren't living in a specific area, even for Chinese people. We don't understand one others if they speak in dialect. So Mandarin connects these different regions of China.

Do you know how many dialects there are in China？According to records, there are more than 80 dialects in China, across 34 provinces. So even though we might live in the same province, we may not communicate in the same language. For instance, Cantonese (is spoken?) in Guangdong province. but they also have Chaoshan words, Meizhou words, Hujian words, and so on, in Guangdong. The majority of them don't speak Cantonese and [don't understand this dialect when they learn in it?] (Meaning unclear)

The people who speak Cantonese don't understand other dialects either. The first time I talked to my roommates of university, they were amazed about my dialect-Chaoshan words. We would learn others' dialects just for fun. It is so interesting when you try to learn other dialects, try to learn other ways to express yourself. And the funny thing is, people in Hongkong and Macao speak Cantonese too, although they don't live in Guangdong. People live in Taiwan speak Fujian word even they don't live in Fujian province. There are lots of things I can't write about this time. Next time we can talk about the accent of China.