Is Cantonese that different to Mandarin?
Definitely, yes! It is more difficult to learn Cantonese which has nine tones compared to Mandarin which has only 4 tones. At our Centre, we only teach situational spoken Cantonese and only for up to 3 levels – Beginners, Intermediate and Advance. But this gives the learners a fairly good kickstart to use their new found Cantonese fairly quickly.