Even though Cantonese sounds better.
loving fobs yo. ruined a language for me. Mandarin gets so goddamn annoying.
I understood zhong guo. Middle country! (and ren)
Also, I was unaware you are Chinese.
I'm an ABC. My understanding of Mandarin is pretty limited. It's not enough to get by.
By extension, my knowledge of Cantonese is "yap yi sam"