Globally, Cantonese is being swamped by Mandarin. The two languages are as different as Spanish is from French.
.” The first is for when someone helps you or performs a service. The second is preferred when you receive a gift or when you want to stress how grateful you are.
In the L.A. area, Mandarin has become more dominant in recent decades with the arrival of immigrants from Taiwan and China. After teaching Cantonese at Stanford for more than 20 years, Sik Lee Dennig is starting a nonprofit to preserve the language. She taught students how to make rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves for the Dragon Boat Festival and showed them around San Francisco‘s Chinatown. The resurgence of martial arts in pop culture inspired her to lecture on Bruce Lee.
Jamie Tam — no relation to Gina — described Dennig’s classes as “100% crucial” to her understanding of her Chinese American identity. More than 5,000 people signed it. Many former students wrote testimonials about how Dennig helped them connect with their families or deepen their academic research.
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