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Posted by rf on 11/14/42 11:27
Luigi Donatello Asero wrote:
> Besides, I had rather gone into a course for Chinese at the moment but
there
> were many people who wanted to do that so I am learning it myself..
Since I deal with many clients in Hong Kong and China and Taiwan I thought
it might be a good idea to learn some Chinese (either flavour).
My Hong Kong distributor told me *not* to. "Westerners", not growing up with
the tonal aspects of Asian languages, and trying to learn Chinese,
invariably learn just enough to insult their listeners.
Change the tone of a few "words" and you are not buying a dim sim, you are
suggesting the dim sim sellers parents were not married at the time of his
conception:-)
Cheers
Richard.
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