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patrickwilken
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Message 17 of 21

22 October 2014 at 1:20pm | IP Logged

smallwhite wrote:

patrickwilken wrote:

I guess my question is how can you really be an immigrant (as opposed to a guest worker) if you can't engage with the country by speaking the language?

If it's Hong Kong you're immigrating to, by us speaking in English with you. Like how I write in English with you.

That's perhaps not a good example though as Hong Kong has both Cantonese and English as official languages. I don't know the requirements for Chinese/Hong-Kong citizenship for non-Chinese nationals, but I would be surprised if you didn't have to speak Mandarin (Cantonese?).

This is an interesting topic, but perhaps we should move it to a new thread as it seems to have no relation to the original discussion.

Edited by patrickwilken on 22 October 2014 at 1:24pm
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smallwhite
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22 October 2014 at 2:15pm | IP Logged

patrickwilken wrote:

... but I would be surprised if you didn't have to speak Mandarin (Cantonese?).

While I was surprised that you had to speak English to immigrate to Australia. So you see we come from different backgrounds.
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patrickwilken
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22 October 2014 at 2:27pm | IP Logged

smallwhite wrote:

patrickwilken wrote:

... but I would be surprised if you didn't have to speak Mandarin (Cantonese?).

While I was surprised that you had to speak English to immigrate to Australia. So you see we come from different backgrounds.

Seriously? Why is that surprising?
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smallwhite
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Message 20 of 21

22 October 2014 at 3:42pm | IP Logged

patrickwilken wrote:

smallwhite wrote:

patrickwilken wrote:

... but I would be surprised if you didn't have to speak Mandarin (Cantonese?).

While I was surprised that you had to speak English to immigrate to Australia. So you see we come from different backgrounds.

Seriously? Why is that surprising?

Mainly because I grew up seeing people coming to Hong Kong without speaking Cantonese or English.
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Gomorritis
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28 October 2014 at 11:00pm | IP Logged

He should work a lot in the pronunciation. I wonder how the teacher was able to guess he was trying to say "δουλέυω".

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