guoyu

Was it the standard 'guoyu' ne 呢 (a bit like French 'noeud'), or more like the Japanese pronouciation (closer to French 'nez' or Greek 'nai')?

languagehat.com: CANADIAN EH. 2005

More and more people now refer to Mandarin as 'huayu' instead of the reflexive 'guoyu' universal 20 years ago.

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Also, that's a detail, but I'm pretty sure wei is second-tone in Taiwanese guoyu wéi.

languagehat.com: CRISIS. 2005

Quick googling brought this interesting note about "coffee" in Singapore and Hong Kong, where 茶 is transcribed as 'te' in the word 茶乌 guoyu 'chawu', Minnanhua 'te o' according to the author, Mr. Wang Huidi, which is "black tea without sugar".

languagehat.com: BORN TO KVETCH. 2005

I won't, but I get the feeling that a large part of the discussion has to do with the not-so-insignificant differences between Taiwan ‘guoyu' and Mainland ‘putonghua'.

languagehat.com: CENSORSHIP IN CHINESE MSN SPACES. 2004

My question is still valid, anyhow, since your experience as a fluent speaker is a lot longer than mine if I really had to date my fluency in guoyu, I'd say about only seven years ago.

languagehat.com: TIDAL WAVE. 2004

In fact, that's where some of the most obvious differences between Mainland putonghua and Taiwan guoyu lie.

languagehat.com: SHIH SHIH. 2004

Mair goes on to say that the Manchus' proclamation of kuo-yü [= guoyu, Mandarin] as the official written language of the nation "marked the formal end of the multimillennial separation between book language (shu-mien-yü [= shumianyu]) and spoken language (k'ou-yü [= kouyu]) in China."

languagehat.com: WRITTEN VERNACULARS IN ASIA. 2004

Within China this dialect is referred to as "standard speech" (putonghua); outside China, it may be called "country language" (guoyu) or simply "Chinese" (huayu).

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Within China this dialect is referred to as "standard speech" (putonghua); outside China, it may be called "country language" (guoyu) or simply "Chinese" (huayu).

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