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By: Ambassador Sestito » Blog Archive » The space

Ambassador Sestito » Blog Archive » The space — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:53:32 +0000

[...] Funny story about the same [...]

By: Medy

Medy — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:46:24 +0000

那个司机就是少见多怪。After being in States for couples years, I have became very comfortable for a guy confronts with some mastery of Chinese. Beijing is still a place lack multiculturalism.

By: Davide

Davide — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:14:39 +0000

Best damn post I have read in years.

By: Pedro E. F.

Pedro E. F. — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:49:09 +0000

As a major in Classical Greek trying my hand at Mandarin, I have to concur with you. Even Sanskrit can be less painful than c.g. Nice blog, I’ve been getting some good tips for when I’m there.

By: Albert

Albert — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:58:09 +0000

Chinkerfly,

I’m betting it was

měi gè yǔyán dōu yǒu tóngyīncí
每个语言都有同音词

By: Albert

Albert — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:56:16 +0000

I really appreciated this post. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve said several sentences to someone in Chinese and then, after about a minute, they express genuine shock that “You can speak Chinese!?” My replies vary from “No, I can’t” to “What did you think I was speaking when I first came up?”

By: Beijing Sounds

Beijing Sounds — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:02:22 +0000

from “1.3 billion people speak WHAT as a mother tongue?!”

…the field is much deeper these days than back when Dashan rocked the New Year’s show. I’m aware, for example, that a high percentage of the seven readers of this humble blog hold their own in various regional flavors of more or less pǔtōng huà. Also, not too many weeks ago a certain O’Kane from Beijing’s very own blogosphere was featured in a well-known PR journal for his consummate Mandarin skills (you can discount his kèqi 客气 — humbleness — about aforementioned language skills and read the more interesting version of the story on his blog, here)…

By: Chinkerfly

Chinkerfly — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:38:12 +0000

So how exactly Do you say “every language has polysemous words” in Chinese? A part of me is betting that it’s more straightforward in Chinese than in English.

By: Jianjun

Jianjun — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:18:29 +0000

Brendan,

I recounted your story to my family and they couldn’t stop laughing!

I go to BJ once or twice each year and don’t like those cab drivers. But it’s rare that you meet such a talkative guy over there! My city Tianjin is famous for such chatty cabbies. But they usually don’t engage in any arguments.

Hope to see you write more…

Best,
Jianjun

By: Poagao

Poagao — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:01:10 +0000

Ha! Funny post. I feel your pain.