Should I study-abroad in China or in Taiwan?

trabia-wind
Fri, 09 May 2008 23:59:11 +0000

i don’t even know if your’e still reading this… but

well… considering that the beijing accent is what the true “mandarin” is based off of… you can’t really complain about beijing ppl having an accent. the sh vs s thing… lol. in beijing they really make that distinction, like you know that tongue twister w/ “shi si shi shi si, si shi shi si shi” (14 is 14, 40 is 40). in other regions where they also speak dialects people often have trouble differentiating between ch and c, sh and s, h and f, n and l, n and ng, etc. beijing is as standard as you can get if you want to really hear those minute differences between yin and ying… -_-

(i’m from sichuan, i also have those sh and s issues… lol)