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		nephihaha 8 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian I find Cantonese a lot easier on the ear. Unfortunately, nearly all the Cantonese I know is rude.

FabHK 8 days ago [–]

I find those Cantonese words ending in -p, -t, -k harsher than mellifluous Mandarin.

nephihaha 7 days ago | [–]

I'm not a great fan of the sibilant sounds in Mandarin. Which to be fair is pretty rich coming from an English speaker.

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