PRAXIS LANGUAGE

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Learning Chinese is not easy because there is a great difference between the two main dialects spoken in China. To be specific, there is no Chinese, there are a big collection of Chinese dialects:

Traditional classification

Traditional Chinese classification lists seven groups, comprising:

• Gan	(Jiangxinese)
• Guan	(Mandarin or Beifanghua)
• Kejia	(Hakka)
• Min	(including the Hokkien and Taiwanese variants)
• Wu	(including the Shanghainese variant)
• Xiang	(Hunanese)
• Yue	(including the Cantonese and Taishanese variants)

(shown here with the romanized Standard Chinese names of the categories, ordered alphabetically).

 Modern linguistic classification

• Mandarin → Jin```
• Wu → Huizhou
• Yue → Pinghua
• Min
• Xiang
• Hakka (Kejia)
• Gan