 Taishanese is a Yue Chinese language that is distinguished from Standard Cantonese but non-specialists often use "Cantonese" in a broader sense for the entire Yue subgroup of Chinese rather than specifically the language of Guangzhou.Cantonese and Taishanese are mutually unintelligible.Cantonese speakers often find Taishanese difficult to understand and have an average intelligibility of only 30%.