umm actually i think i read it from the news somewhere that now in US, they made kids in elementary learn mandarin la... mandatory gor jek tim...
because reports are saying that in less than 10 years... mandarin will take over english to be the "international language" wor...
hahahaha.... i guess in their eyes only Mandarin is Chinese...
but in someway, they're not totally wrong, because Cantonese is really just one of the many "dialects" in China... may be just that we were living in the Canton Province and got spoiled
last time, I was walking with a taiwanese friend (and she knows that I'm Cantonese)... when I answered her a question in Mandarin, something like "ok, for sure"... she suddenly acted sooo surprised and said in Mandarin: "wa, 你會說中文!"...
o kaimui22, i don't think they call random people la... it's usually either you signed up for this or for that... and they sell "telmarketers" the "List"
often time, we signed up for things and they collected our info. without us really paying much attention to it la... say, credit card, cell phone, home phone, hydro bill, retail stores, msn, e-mails, ticket masters, Chinese TV, just to name a few... anything that says "create an account" basically collected your profile and started to sort it to labels one way or another... like... "Chinese" "income between 20000-50000" "family with kids" etc...
yea... crazy... i need to learn mandarin too... i was talking to suppliers in China before... spoke in English = 1 price, spoke in Mandarin = another price!
anyone know any good language exchange website to share? also interested to learn Korean
Littleprince, see my reply on tax return Capital Gain?
and i heard that we wouldn't sign up for the "do not call" list because smaller telemarketers and ppl from states can use the list and won't get in trouble?.... so ppl actually getting more calls than before.... that's what i heard...
發表於 2009-4-25 00:47
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