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Original post by multiplexing-gamer

你好；）

你好！

Original post by Japs

hello, Coming back, just moved. Not internet yet. Can't type Chinese meh

Original post by Kolya

Most of my Mandarin practice is in taxis. The putonghua of grizzled local taxi drivers is sometimes hilariously far away from the model pronunciation given in the classroom. It's good fun.

That is quite fun - gotta love the overuse of the Beijing 儿 (-r). :yep:

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Mcnubn

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Original post by Kolya

Most of my Mandarin practice is in taxis. The putonghua of grizzled local taxi drivers is sometimes hilariously far away from the model pronunciation given in the classroom. It's good fun.

sometimes find its like a continuous growl with tones in it -.-

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lovers in japan

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Original post by alex_hk90

Wudaokou is good - personally I preferred Lush and The Bridge Cafe to Helen's. :smile:

I get what you mean, most of my Mandarin practise was during class and with my tutor, but seeing as this amounted to over 5 hours a day that was enough practise for me!

Ah I'm (was) a Shanghai girl so my knowledge of Beijing is sorely limited... ask me about Shanghai dive bars :p:

Original post by Mcnubn

Don't get me wrong, there are some good places up there

it's just a bit too international for my liking, feel I'd never practice my mandarin if I lived there!

The batong line has a certain charm about it :tongue:

even if remnants of torn down buildings never get cleaned up -.-

Yeah no I can see that, for me it was a bit of a treat as I lived in an ancient xiaoqu in Shanghai where I was the only foreigner there, perhaps even on that road... I overlooked a street market so spent most of my time speaking to people down there, so Helen's was a lovely treat when I went to Beijing! I was like, wow, I can speak English again!

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Ting ma ma de hua

Original post by lovers in japan

Ah I'm (was) a Shanghai girl so my knowledge of Beijing is sorely limited... ask me about Shanghai dive bars :p:

Ah I should've asked you earlier, I'm leaving Shanghai in a week. :sad:

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eugenius 8

Original post by alex_hk90

Nǐ hǎo!

wo shi bbc :yep:

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multiplexing-gamer

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Original post by alex_hk90

你好！

That is quite fun - gotta love the overuse of the Beijing 儿 (-r). :yep:

你摁么样？ ^_^

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lovers in japan

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Original post by alex_hk90

Ah I should've asked you earlier, I'm leaving Shanghai in a week. :sad:

Oh no sad times! I'm going to hopefully head over for a visit next year some time :smile:

It's been a while! I knew the French Concession well, I lived in Xuhui :smile:

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Original post by eugenius 8

wo shi bbc :yep:

Cool.

I'm half British so kind of similar I guess. :tongue:

Original post by multiplexing-gamer

你摁么样？ ^_^

“摁”什么意思？
What is the meaning of "èn"?

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Original post by alex_hk90

Cool.

I'm half British so kind of similar I guess. :tongue:

Do you get treated like a Chinese or a foreigner in China?

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Original post by Kolya

Do you get treated like a Chinese or a foreigner in China?

I look Chinese enough (skin, eye and hair colour) that most people think I'm Chinese until I start to speak with them, so more like a local I guess. :smile:

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Original post by alex_hk90

That is quite fun - gotta love the overuse of the Beijing 儿 (-r). :yep:

Last night I asked a driver where another unfamiliar taxi was from, as I didn't recognise the licence plate. He said it came from "san1xi1". Never heard of the place. 三西？ But ok, I don't know every single city in central China. The driver looks at me like I'm a complete idiot nonetheless.

I make a mental note of the province abbreviation and look it up later. Dude was of course talking about shanxi province and just doesn't distinguish between s/sh...

There's gotta be some hilarious stories about people who have ended up hundreds of miles away from their destination in a taxi because of stuff like that.

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multiplexing-gamer

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Original post by alex_hk90

Cool.

I'm half British so kind of similar I guess. :tongue:

“摁”什么意思？
What is the meaning of "èn"?

It was supposed to day "how're you" :colondollar:

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Original post by Kolya

Last night I asked a driver where another unfamiliar taxi was from, as I didn't recognise the licence plate. He said it came from "san1xi1". Never heard of the place. 三西？ But ok, I don't know every single city in central China. The driver looks at me like I'm a complete idiot nonetheless.

I make a mental note of the province abbreviation and look it up later. Dude was of course talking about shanxi province and just doesn't distinguish between s/sh...

There's gotta be some hilarious stories about people who have ended up hundreds of miles away from their destination in a taxi because of stuff like that.

He probably wasn't a Beijinger then, they tend to distinguish the s/sh but quite a few regional accents don't (which I think must get confusing even for each other quite often, while you can usually guess from the context there must be some cases of ambiguity).

Original post by multiplexing-gamer

It was supposed to day "how're you" :colondollar:

Oh I see, it was missing the 'z'. 我还可以，但是觉得太累了，还有一点感冒了。 :frown:

你呢？

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Mcnubn

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Original post by Kolya

Last night I asked a driver where another unfamiliar taxi was from, as I didn't recognise the licence plate. He said it came from "san1xi1". Never heard of the place. 三西？ But ok, I don't know every single city in central China. The driver looks at me like I'm a complete idiot nonetheless.

I make a mental note of the province abbreviation and look it up later. Dude was of course talking about shanxi province and just doesn't distinguish between s/sh...

There's gotta be some hilarious stories about people who have ended up hundreds of miles away from their destination in a taxi because of stuff like that.

The lady that ran a little shop near my apartment was terrible at the s/sh thing -.- it used to **** me up every time trying to work out if something was 4 kuai, 10 kuai etc -.-

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Original post by Mcnubn

sometimes find its like a continuous growl with tones in it -.-

A good way to embarrass your young well-educated Chinese friends is to speak like that, throwing in countless loud "ai1ya1"s like you're a seventy year old man from Guangzhou who's exasperated with the world.

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multiplexing-gamer

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Original post by alex_hk90

He probably wasn't a Beijinger then, they tend to distinguish the s/sh but quite a few regional accents don't (which I think must get confusing even for each other quite often, while you can usually guess from the context there must be some cases of ambiguity).

Oh I see, it was missing the 'z'. 我还可以，但是觉得太累了，还有一点感冒了。 :frown:

你呢？

Hmm my Chinese is very poor at the moment. What does that mean?

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Original post by alex_hk90

He probably wasn't a Beijinger then, they tend to distinguish the s/sh but quite a few regional accents don't (which I think must get confusing even for each other quite often, while you can usually guess from the context there must be some cases of ambiguity).

yeah, I live in Henan. We don't have many -r speakers here, and Henanren usually distinguish between s/sh as well. I asked the guy where he came from but didn't recognise the place.

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