pandarunner
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Isn't 鞑子 a derogatory term?While I'm not Mongolian, my grandmother's side of the family are Manchus, thus qualifying them as 鞑子. However, since my great grandfather, no one in the family knew a single word of Manchu language. They speak nothing but mandarin and in my case, Mandarin and Cantonese. The story told was that the family feared for their lives after the Qing dynasty was overthrown since Hans might decide to pay Manchus a little revenge, so the entire family took Han names and gave up everything Manchu.
I thought the modern Mandaris the Beijing dialect mixed with Manchu language, and Manchu language share a lot words with Mongolian, so it should be much easier for Mongols to speak Mandarin fluently.