One of my greatest pleasures in life is studying foreign languages. Spending time in Sichuan has given me the opportunity to be surrounded by people speaking Sichuanese (the dialect spoken by the people of Sichuan). I love their accent, how they get their "N"s and "L"s all mixed up, and their elongated vowels at the end of each sentence. I know I sound like a fool when I do it but I love speaking Sichuanese!
So yesterday I asked my friend MuRong to help me find a Sichuanese textbook so that I could study the basics of the dialect. You can imagine my surprise when we couldn't find any such book after going to all the major bookstores in town! Imagine a place with a population of 89 million people without a book to learn their language! And I'm not talking about a book for foreigners, I'm talking about a book in Mandarin!
All the sales people told me the same thing; go find more Sichuanese friends and you can learn directly from them! :)
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Dennis
01/05/2011 16:58
One of my friend graduated from Chongqing University(重庆大学). He told me everybody speak Cichuanease in campus, including in class. Chongqing is another beautiful city in Cichuan area. She is a Municipality. She is called mountain city, fog city and bridge city. Changjiang rive and Jialing jiang rive are crossing here. You can see the different color of water at the crossing.
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