Learning Chinese: I Learned Cantonese When I Wanted Mandarin

Learning Chinese is hard enough, with its tones, but I had the experience of setting out to learn Mandarin but actually getting started in Cantonese! How could something like that happen, and what turned out to be helpful in learning Mandarin?

Learning Chinese is hard enough, with its tones, but I had the experience of setting out to learn Mandarin but actually getting started in Cantonese! How could something like that happen, and what turned out to be helpful in learning Mandarin? Less