Celia Therapy

Mostly for Two Reasons: The Chinatowns of the World and Hong KongI firmly believe Cantonese is the most powerful Chinese dialect. As not everyone is familiar with the Chinese language and its innumerable dialects, let me start with an exposition on the concept of dialects and whether or not some can be considered separate languages altogether.English and Spanish are probably the most well known languages on this side of the world. In fact, they’re the two most commonly used languages in the
 world.But are they really just two languages?In America alone, we have English from the West Coast, English from the East Coast, English from the South, and so on. I assume anyone reading this article has had the good fortune of speaking with someone from a different region. Did you understand them? My guess is that aside from a few colloquialisms and an occasional urge to giggle, you understood them quite sufficiently.What about Britain and Australia? You don’t have to have been there to know what a British accent or Australian accent sounds like. I can understand Brits pretty well but have a little trouble with Aussies. Still, it doesn’t sound like a different language to me. A whole different set of vocabulary, but not quite different enough to classify it as a different language.So, English is English, right? This is not a rhetorical question, but for the sake of my argument in this article, I’m going to say a simple yes. You can have your own opinions.Onto Spanish. Now this language is a little trickier. With so many different countries that have Spanish as their official language, it’s no wonder that there’s a variety of regional speeches, but are they dialects in the sense that if you speak standard Castilian Spanish you can’t understand them? Probably. Catalan is a tough one. And that’s the only example I can think of. I have no problem understanding Mexicans, Costa Ricans, Guatemalans, Peruvians, and Argentineans.