liztai, (edited ) 
I will be utterly lost in China if not for boring standard Mandarin 😂
Southern dialects - sound like different languages altogether (and tbh they are. Hokkien and Cantonese are nothing alike)
Northern dialects - often sound like heavily accented standard Mandarin
Ps: the Hokkien speaker was mumbling so I could barely make her out, but the teowchew one actually sounds familiar.
