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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6588 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 145 of 150 18 May 2011 at 7:42am | IP Logged | ||
Surely most people literate in Modern Standard Mandarin have trouble with anything older than the baihua movement. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Camundonguinho Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4755 days ago 273 posts - 500 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish Studies: Swedish | Message 146 of 150 29 November 2011 at 1:10am | IP Logged | ||
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China is still very poor. If you want to emigrate to a rich country, start learning Norwegian. ;)
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| nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5421 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 147 of 150 29 November 2011 at 4:52am | IP Logged | ||
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Norway is also very expensive. Moving to a rich, expensive country will make you feel poor. ;)
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| Camundonguinho Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4755 days ago 273 posts - 500 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish Studies: Swedish | Message 148 of 150 05 December 2011 at 12:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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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 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5421 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 149 of 150 05 December 2011 at 6:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4674 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 150 of 150 07 September 2013 at 9:09am | IP Logged | ||
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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 1 person has voted this message useful |
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