It is easy to make people laugh. Yesterday at a faculty meeting I answered a question (asked in English) in Chinese. Everyone laughed.
It is easy to make people laugh. Yesterday at a faculty meeting I answered a question (asked in English) in Chinese. Everyone laughed.
So what did you say and what were you trying to say?
Hé, hé, tonal languages are treacherous.
I have been told that in Vietnamese “vagina” and “tomato” differ only by the tone.
Don’t exercise your new language skills at the supermarket…
I said “I don’t know” in Chinese. They were amused not because I actually said something else (I think . . . ) but because it was unexpected.