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WayToTwilight · 11-05-2006, 10:28 AM

I was born an ABC (Already Been Chewed... I mean... American Born Chinese

) and my parents are from Hong Kong and so I am semi-fluent in Cantonese. I say semi-fluent because I probably have really good grammar and syntax but probably the vocabulary of a 5 year old Cantonese kid.

I'm also really interested in learning Mandarin, I know basic mandarin because I took a years worth of courses in it but I haven't really used it for over a year now so it's quite lacking.

I've also been quite interested in Japanese but now I think my focus will be the two Chinese dialects. I've been listening to lots of Chinese songs, both Canto and Mandarin, as of late and I really want to get back into Chinese cinema but right now there isn't that many great Chinese movies since Infernal Affairs. Feels like Koreans dominate Asian cinema now.

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WayToTwilight Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 55	I was born an ABC (Already Been Chewed... I mean... American Born Chinese ) and my parents are from Hong Kong and so I am semi-fluent in Cantonese. I say semi-fluent because I probably have really good grammar and syntax but probably the vocabulary of a 5 year old Cantonese kid. I'm also really interested in learning Mandarin, I know basic mandarin because I took a years worth of courses in it but I haven't really used it for over a year now so it's quite lacking. I've also been quite interested in Japanese but now I think my focus will be the two Chinese dialects. I've been listening to lots of Chinese songs, both Canto and Mandarin, as of late and I really want to get back into Chinese cinema but right now there isn't that many great Chinese movies since Infernal Affairs. Feels like Koreans dominate Asian cinema now.