Just read that this was even the 6th Y-20 making its maiden flight on 13.07.2015 .... can anyone confirm !??
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Just read that this was even the 6th Y-20 making its maiden flight on 13.07.2015 .... can anyone confirm !??
OTCongratulations, you have a great potential to speak standard mandarin, because 4 and Death sounds differently to you meaning you can distinguish tones in Chinese. The two Words are different, remember Chinese has four tones, 4 has 4th tone while Death has 3rd tone. Also Madarian has many regional variants, speakers of these sub variants may have to struggle to understand each others while none of them would be able to understand Cantonese at all. If we say American English is like Mandarian, and assume Midwest accent as Standard Mandarian, Taxan would sounds like Another Mandarian variant, while Indian English would be Cantonese. It is totally OT, but just for a laugh.
I was told Cantonese has many more tones than the four I learned in my rudimentary Mandarin course ( twenty hours ).
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JayBird
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I only find one article today mentioned this was the 5th Y-20 making it's maiden flight on July-13-2015. (4th if you don't count the static test airframe)
Thanks !
The problem is - similar to the J-20 serials - that there are reports that speak of the fifth airframe (what i would interpret as being indeed the fifth aircraft) and now number 6, while others are more vague and call it no. 5 airframe, what could also mean no. 4 was omitted and there are in fact only 4 aircraft at all... + now the one from yesterday making 5.
Deino
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Congratulations, you have a great potential to speak standard mandarin, because 4 and Death sounds differently to you meaning you can distinguish tones in Chinese. The two Words are different, remember Chinese has four tones, 4 has 4th tone while Death has 3rd tone. Also Madarian has many regional variants, speakers of these sub variants may have to struggle to understand each others while none of them would be able to understand Cantonese at all. If we say American English is like Mandarian, and assume Midwest accent as Standard Mandarian, Taxan would sounds like Another Mandarian variant, while Indian English would be Cantonese. It is totally OT, but just for a laugh.
The English comparison to Mandarin would be more like..... Beijing Mandarin (the most standard variant) would be like the queen's english - with distinct Londoner accent. The Northern Chinese mandarin would then sound most like the Scottish or Irish with their more dramatic intonation. The southern chinese and taiwanese then talks more like the american - with much "softer" and "lazier" tone. The cantonese on the other hand talks more like the South American.... But China is just way too large, its very hard for outsider or a lot of chinese to even comprehend how large and varied they are - there are so many different dialects that sound completely incomprehensible to chinese who doesn't speak that dialect (like Shanghainese sounds like bird singing to me!
And Sichuanese sounds like mexican spanish!)Anyway, its quite interesting, but OT by miles!
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you are right, Cantonese has 7 tones I Think. Standard Mandarian has 4 only today, mid-classical Mandarian 1000 years ago supposed to have 5. Language keeps evolving.
Except, British speaker can understand American English pretty well, but there is no way a Mandarian speaker can understand cantonese or Fujian dialect (Taiwanese).The English comparison to Mandarin would be more like..... Beijing Mandarin (the most standard variant) would be like the queen's english - with distinct Londoner accent. The Northern Chinese mandarin would then sound most like the Scottish or Irish with their more dramatic intonation. The southern chinese and taiwanese then talks more like the american - with much "softer" and "lazier" tone. The cantonese on the other hand talks more like the South American.... But China is just way too large, its very hard for outsider or a lot of chinese to even comprehend how large and varied they are - there are so many different dialects that sound completely incomprehensible to chinese who doesn't speak that dialect (like Shanghainese sounds like bird singing to me!
Anyway, its quite interesting, but OT by miles!