Talk:Sabine Cheng/@comment-33516169-20180426131650

Hmmm, Sabine originates from Wenzhou so her dialect of Chinese should be Wenzhounese. Wenzhounese is the oddest of the Wu dialect cluster due to its geography. Wenzhou is very mountainous, hindering contact with neighboring cities to the north) and proximity to Fujian, so this means that the Wenzhou dialect is not at all mutually intelligible with other Chinese dialects so they might have a problem if they try to communicate with others.

Marinette's maternal grandmother comes from Shanghai which means her grandmother would know fluent Shanghainese. Her dialect would use different topography compared to Wenzhou speakers. Also, the Shanghainese tonal system is also significantly different from other Chinese varieties, sounding quite similar to Japanese not to forget Shanghainese people uses voiced initial stops and affricates [b d ɡ ɦ z v dʑ ʑ]: which neither Cantonese nor Mandarin uses at all.

A lot of the dialects are not mutually intelligible so people who speak Wenzhounese CAN NOT understand people who speak Shanghainese. It could be that Marinette's family expands in both regions though which might mean Marinette consists of the Shanghainese-Wenzhounese municipality.