what are your opinions about cantonese and mandarin?你認為粵語, 台語, 上海話是方言嗎

In China, we often say, teochew, wu languages[shanghainese is one of them], Min Chinese, Hakka, Cantonese are dialects...do you [non Chinese/Chinese] think they are only dialects, too?

I am currently learning Cantonese, South Min, teochew and shanghainese...well, my mother tongue is southwestern mandarin(we have the trill r in here, but I cannot pronounce this sound T^T), and I can find many similarities [esp. vocabulary part]between cantonese and mandarin..but the other "dialects" are a little different from mandarin

Personally speaking, I'm from China, and I don't wanna say they are different languages, but after learning them, I kind of think their dissimilarities are more than similarities

Could ya tell me what you think about?

我的母語是西南官話, 跟普通話有著比較大的區別, 比如說我的母語有大舌顫音 rr[不過我本人不會這個音 T_T], 我的母語的聲調跟普通話也不完全一樣, 大體上是> 33, 13, 21, 41; 我最近在學習-->白話, 台語, 上海話和潮汕話..我發現這些"方言"跟普通話不能完全互通, 大家覺得普通話和這些方言真的只是主語言和方言的關係嗎? 我以前也這麼想, 但是學了后我已經不再這麼認為了..這些方言可能來自共同的祖先, 但是現在相互間的區別已經蠻大了...

Can English-speaking folks understand each other? I know this title is totally STUPID...xD What I really mean is the vocabulary differences between different English dialects are amazingly surprised Let me list some words I found in Oxford Dict. British E American E quad bike four-wheeler inverted commas quotation marks quieten down quiet down queue line to fill in a questionnaire to fill out a questionnaire pyjamas pajamas windscreen windshield camp bed cot cot crib[baby bed] cotton wool absorbent cotton cot death crib death potato crisp potato chip dumper truck dump truck consumer durables durable goods dust sheet drop cloth dustman garbage man aubergine eggplant some of these are slightly different, and some of these are entirely different like aubergine and eggplant Can an American understand an Englishman?...Can a British person know what it means if an American says he likes eating eggplant?

Some expressions in Icelandic I've started to learn Icelandic recently...and I find it difficult, and lack of resources.. so I choose to learn it with Faroese together, maybe this can make up the shortage of materials to some extent... and I learnt some expression today [I-->Icelandic, F-Faroese] Gothan daginn, both in F and I Gothan dag > both,too Gothan morgun..in F... farvæl--(F)-farewell vit síggjast--see you so about this "good morning"...is there any expression similar to "Gothan morgun" of F in Icelandic?..like Góðan morgunn? and farewell...is there any word similar to farvæl of F? And any phrases similar to "vit síggjast"of Faroese?

what foreign languages are taught at high schools in your country? what foreign languages are taught at high schools in your country? In China...English is probably the only language taught at high school, and minority of schools offers Japanese, French, Russian courses...but for language teaching..most schools are monolingual

Irish Gaelic Do Irish people still speak Irish Gaelic nowadays?...I heard that Celtic languages are a little difficult to learn...I'd like to learn them someday after I finish learning Germanic languages