Archive for October, 2007
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
New mission - learning to read
When I first started to learn Cantonese and even up to a few days ago, I thought that reading and writing Chinese would be a total waste of my time. Speaking Cantonese fluently is all that I needed and I would be happy. Besides street signs are written in both English and Chinese.
I was only […]
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Cantonese in the Mainland
So I spent the last 6 days in Mainland China for a holiday. It wasn’t the complete culture shock being that road rules seem to not exist or sales assistants follow you everywhere you go that made me feel uncomfortable, it was that the so-called local language seemed to not exist.
廣州 - gwong2 zau1 - […]