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It depends on your purpose of learning Chinese, it is a tool or a research.
Learning different dialects enables you learning the trend of Chinese pronunciation history. Also to quickly join local society, foreign people who speaks dialect is considered more friendly.
Actually standardized Mandarin (普通话) is a combination of dialects that are used by ...
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While I am not aware of any studies, I would add this:
From my own experience of trying to learn other dialects beyond Mandarin (Taiwanese, Cantonese), as well as simplified along with traditional characters, I'd tend to agree with the previous paradigm.
The reason is that there is so much to learn in a single dialect that starting on another one would ...
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