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| mjcdchess Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6787 days ago 46 posts - 48 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 1 of 8 10 July 2007 at 5:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well I had a visitor a little girl who just came from mainland China 3 months ago she is 11. She took the opportunity to tell me in perfect English that "My Chinese was very bad"
LOL It seems amazing the capacity of 11 year old children when compaired to a 52 year old adult how far she has come in as little as three months and perhaps how little I have progressed in the past almost 2 years. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| aru-aru Triglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 6297 days ago 244 posts - 331 votes  Speaks: Latvian*, English, Russian | Message 2 of 8 10 July 2007 at 6:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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You'll regret not having this kind of people around later on.
I made a lot of progress when there were kids with whom i could communicate - when i said something wrong, they told me instantly that they do not understand. The polite grownups tried guessing and never said there's anything wrong. It was more like on the lines of "Nide zhongwen shuode ting hao!" Yeah, right... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mjcdchess Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6787 days ago 46 posts - 48 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 3 of 8 11 July 2007 at 8:52am | IP Logged | ||
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It is a pleasure to have her around. She has made a boost in my girlfriend's daughter's chinese ( who is also 11 years old )
the language spoken at home is English but my girlfriend has been teaching her daughter chinese for several years now and they gradually speak more and more Chinese. Since the arrival of this other little girl they now speak almost all Chinese at home and the daughter is improving and speaking more than ever. I cannot keep up with them very well but it has helped me too 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Asiafever Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 6293 days ago 38 posts - 35 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: German, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 4 of 8 11 July 2007 at 10:30am | IP Logged | ||
This is exactly what is happening to me, every Chinese people I talk to say I speak very well but I have a horrible accent and really don't speak that well. I hate it when people are polite because I can never know if I actually speak well. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mjcdchess Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6787 days ago 46 posts - 48 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 5 of 8 11 July 2007 at 1:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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I do a great deal more listening than speaking and I have a very difficult time actually hearing what they are saying correctly.
I also simply cannot pronounce some words at all and in some cases they end up being other words that confuse the meaning sometimes with rather funny results 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Frisco Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6696 days ago 380 posts - 398 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Italian, Turkish, Mandarin | Message 6 of 8 12 July 2007 at 2:02am | IP Logged | ||
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I would've kicked her in the face, but good to see you saw something amazing about it.
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| mjcdchess Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6787 days ago 46 posts - 48 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 7 of 8 12 July 2007 at 3:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Seems a bit much for a casual comment
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| Frisco Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6696 days ago 380 posts - 398 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Italian, Turkish, Mandarin | Message 8 of 8 12 July 2007 at 5:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Just think of it as giving her a lesson in pragmatics. :)
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