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I didn't pick up on that at first, but yeah, that is sad.
Does anyone with personal experience out there think that Cantonese will at least level off one day and have a base for survival?
I'm in New York and only know that it should be okay for another ten years here because of a strong HK-connection from its past. I know Mandarin will continue to rise up here, but if I have children one day I want them fluent in Cantonese. My wife's family all speak it, their friends speak it and I want my children to fit in better in our Chinese neighborhood. But if Cantonese vanishes will it waste my child's time to speak it with us?
Also as a side-note I went out with my wife's friends and of course I was the 'white guy who can speak a little Cantonese' (at times I feel like I'm not a person but 馬騮講廣東話). Anyway, one of her old high-school friends was talking to me about offers to work in 廣州 but he said it Guang Jo, with the 'jo' sound, 广州. Mostly everyone at the party was talking Cantonese and I thought it was odd that a major birthplace of Cantonese was casually just mentioned in conversation with the Mandarin name (because he was speaking to me a little in Cantonese in the first place). I don't know if he was trying to trick me, but it just struck me as strange even though he seemed like a cool guy.
Can Cantonese at least level off one day? Or is it the situation such that not even Hong Kong can put up another fifty years?
I didn't pick up on that at first, but yeah, that is sad.
Does anyone with personal experience out there think that Cantonese will at least level off one day and have a base for survival?
I'm in New York and only know that it should be okay for another ten years here because of a strong HK-connection from its past. I know Mandarin will continue to rise up here, but if I have children one day I want them fluent in Cantonese. My wife's family all speak it, their friends speak it and I want my children to fit in better in our Chinese neighborhood. But if Cantonese vanishes will it waste my child's time to speak it with us?
Also as a side-note I went out with my wife's friends and of course I was the 'white guy who can speak a little Cantonese' (at times I feel like I'm not a person but 馬騮講廣東話). Anyway, one of her old high-school friends was talking to me about offers to work in 廣州 but he said it Guang Jo, with the 'jo' sound, 广州. Mostly everyone at the party was talking Cantonese and I thought it was odd that a major birthplace of Cantonese was casually just mentioned in conversation with the Mandarin name (because he was speaking to me a little in Cantonese in the first place). I don't know if he was trying to trick me, but it just struck me as strange even though he seemed like a cool guy.
Can Cantonese at least level off one day? Or is it the situation such that not even Hong Kong can put up another fifty years?