@KMdragon

Thanks!

kunming hua is originated from beijing hua so they are close. people from north part of china can easily understand it within sereval days.

I am major Chinese, and I am a kunminger. During a period of time I was studying the difference between kunminghua and Mandarin. if you'd like to stuty it, I can try to teach you online first. yyj0129@hotmail.com

sean1 wrote: "also, the intensity of adjectives are modified by saying ADV的很,like 快得很,笨得很,慢得很 instead of 很快,很笨,or很慢.

like 那个老表笨得很"
I think it's not Kunminghua but only sort of kouyu using in North China like Tianjin as well

interesting to know that "ga" should b typed 嘎。。。correct? 噶wont do?

I think I had a book awhile ago on Kunminghua, written in English, full on anthropological/linguistic study, including all the tone sandhi rules that native speakers aren't even aware of. It was based on some 80s version of the dialect though. Then again, maybe that's the more authentic version (less standard mandarin influence).

To hail a taxi, you say "Suh-fu".

Mandarin:

"Sure-Who".

In Kmg, you greet by asking a q'n:

"Knee kuh LAW dee-er kuh LAW?"

Mandarin:

"Knee Chew Nar?

To be fake-polite, like Chinese, u ask them "Have you eaten?"--rhetorical bs where u pretend to care--just like they do lol.
Kmg: "Guh chur fahn (like "aah" at dentist) LAW?"

"Guh chur fahn LAW?"
Mandarin:

"Knee chur fahn?

Or, "Knee chur boo chur fahn?"

More beginner phrases next time...

Don't listen to people downing Yunnan or Kunming dialect--Chinese do that ALL over China--in each population center. True.

That peasant from Yunnan or

Yunnan mountain tribal person

ARE the very soul and essence of China--not the arrogant, educated, a-hole, big-city person frm Bj/Sh/HK/Tianjin/Guangzhou.

If you've toured in Yunnan, you
HAVE seen China--more than going to the Great Wall, or Beijing lol. True.

You know Yunnan is the most scenic, unique place in all China, right?

You're sooooo lucky to be there. 100.

The most btfl places in China r Tibet, Qinghai, Sichuan, Guangxi and where u r--in the middle of the action.

And Suchuan-Yunnan food is off-the-chain--don't let people tell u otherwise.

Yunnan is beyond amazing.

Note that Yunnan accents/dialects vary with location. Don't understand why Yunnan peasants and 'Yunnan mountain tribal persons' are the 'soul & essence of China' - China's a big place, lotta local variations all over, including linguistic ones.