Best Thing About Learning Chinese
It is easy to make people laugh. Yesterday at a faculty meeting I answered a question (asked in English) in Chinese. Everyone laughed.
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September 17th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
So what did you say and what were you trying to say?
September 18th, 2009 at 12:31 am
Hé, hé, tonal languages are treacherous.
I have been told that in Vietnamese “vagina” and “tomato” differ only by the tone.
Don’t exercise your new language skills at the supermarket…
September 18th, 2009 at 3:18 am
I said “I don’t know” in Chinese. They were amused not because I actually said something else (I think . . . ) but because it was unexpected.