Are Mandarine,Cantonese,Shanghaiese basically the same in oral, speech and characters with slight differences
or basically the same ?

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Are Mandarine,Cantonese,Shanghaiese basically the same in oral, speech and characters with slight differences 
or basically the same ?

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Compare it to western languages such as English, Dutch, German etc. There are similarities but significant differences as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoken_Chinese
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Europe_germanic-languages_2.PNG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_language

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Learning Cantonese is actually a nightmare.

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Wu language system is not much different from North language system, but Yue language system is。and there is another great  different  ， Min language system， which used in almost Fujian provence and other area nearby in southeast china。

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no 。
 Mandarine basic is the North language system。
Shanghaiese is  the Wu language system。
Cantonese evolves from the Yue  language system。

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I think Shanghainese is closer to Mandarin than Cantonese. Cantonese is the hardest to learn. 我觉的广东话很难学. 在建.

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