温哥华说国语的人越来越多 引发国粤语之争

没有什么保护不保护的。交流中你说粤语人家不懂，你只好说国语。国语毕竟是全国通用，任何省份的人都能听得懂。你粤语只是广东广西地区使用，其它身份的人都听不懂。人家听不懂你说什么，你难道还能强迫人家去听懂吗？顶多不与你交流就是啦，做买卖不与你做就是啦。交流不与你交流就是啦。或者人家与你用英语交流，你觉得方便就OK啦。保护？有些必然会被淘汰的东西根本没有保护的必要。就像京剧，围棋，相声，曲艺等等。

过气的东西，该扔就得扔。

在加拿大应该说英语。

任何语言都承载了其特定的文化，语言一旦消失，其承载的文化就只能到纸堆里寻了。每天都有语言消失。

不装死不了, 所以就别不懂装懂了

The English word "mandarin" (from Portuguese mandarim, from Malay menteri, from Sanskrit mantrin, meaning "minister or counsellor") originally meant an official of the Ming and Qing empires.[4][5][a] Since their native varieties were often mutually unintelligible, these officials communicated using a Koiné language based on various northern varieties. When Jesuit missionaries learned this standard language in the 16th century, they called it "Mandarin", from its Chinese name Guānhuà (官话/官話), or "language of the officials".[7]

In everyday English, "Mandarin" refers to Standard Chinese, which is often called simply "Chinese". Standard Chinese is based on the particular Mandarin dialect spoken in Beijing, with some lexical and syntactic influence from other Mandarin dialects. It is the official spoken language of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the official language of the Republic of China (ROC, Taiwan), and one of the four official languages of the Republic of Singapore. It also functions as the language of instruction in Mainland China and in Taiwan. It is one of the six official languages of the United Nations, under the name "Chinese". Chinese speakers refer to the modern standard language as

Pǔtōnghuà (普通话/普通話, literally "common speech") in Mainland China,
Guóyǔ (國語, literally "national language") in Taiwan, or
Huáyǔ (华语/華語) in Malaysia, Singapore and Philippines,