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Topic: news Language Wars: English-Speaking Chinese Person Meets Mandarin-Speaking Foreigner

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crabbybohs870
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Oh boy do I have their number on the flattery part, (I'm not fluent Putonghua speaker) but I have a conversation with someone (a Chinese person) and they try to use any English I ALWAYS say "Ni de yingwen bi wo de zhongwen hen hao!" I don't know if that's totally correct but man oh man do I win some brownie points! If there's something I've learned cultural wise since I've been here (for almost two months) is flattery goes a LONG way. No I'm not talking about with women, I'm talking about with meeting new contacts or making new friends.

Dec 27, 2014 21;35
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