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Ari
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 Message 145 of 150
18 May 2011 at 7:42am | IP Logged 
jimbo wrote:
Not unless you want to read anything written in the past few thousand years.

Surely most people literate in Modern Standard Mandarin have trouble with anything older than the baihua movement.
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Camundonguinho
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 Message 146 of 150
29 November 2011 at 1:10am | IP Logged 
China is still very poor. If you want to emigrate to a rich country, start learning Norwegian. ;)
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nway
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 Message 147 of 150
29 November 2011 at 4:52am | IP Logged 
Norway is also very expensive. Moving to a rich, expensive country will make you feel poor. ;)
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Camundonguinho
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 Message 148 of 150
05 December 2011 at 12:33pm | IP Logged 
Not really, German or Spanish engineers or doctors who move to Norway are not poor.
They earn 6x times more than in their home countires, yet Norway is only 2x expensive than Germany or Spain. 90% of Norwegians live in their own house/apartment. In Germany, 60% of people don't own the place they live in (they rent it).

Edited by Camundonguinho on 05 December 2011 at 12:36pm

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nway
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 Message 149 of 150
05 December 2011 at 6:07pm | IP Logged 
Camundonguinho wrote:
Not really, German or Spanish engineers or doctors who move to Norway are not poor.
They earn 6x times more than in their home countires, yet Norway is only 2x expensive than Germany or Spain. 90% of Norwegians live in their own house/apartment. In Germany, 60% of people don't own the place they live in (they rent it).

Income may be lower in China, but so are the prices.

If you're emigrating to China to do farming, then yeah, you're probably not going to be living very richly. But it hardly needs to be said that there is a massive amount of wealth being generated in China, with no shortage of nouveau riche.
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Medulin
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 Message 150 of 150
07 September 2013 at 9:09am | IP Logged 
Here in my country, more people learn Hindi than Mandarin.
There are no Chinese movies and soap operas on local TV,
Bollywood is the king ;)

The Chinese culture is completely alien to us,
the Indian (especially North Indian) is familiar.

It's kind of sad... anglophone children in New Mexico and California
study Mandarin instead of Spanish.

Edited by Medulin on 07 September 2013 at 9:16am



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