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C3 comes to Hong Kong
ChwibiKiwa:
Really? Thanks for the heads up starxdestiny.
And yes it's hilarious when people like old shopkeeper ladies try and get you to buy something like knockoff purses and fake jade for hundreds in HK dollars with their broken English, thinking I'm not from HK. But then you surprise them with perfect Cantonese since its your first language and see the look on their faces when you tell them that's not worth more than "10 mon gai." XD
Nethirel:
--- Quote from: Southrop on April 14, 2009, 03:37:02 AM ---But yeah. Last year, I just got a staff pass from my friend. Free entry and unlimited re-entries :D
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Wow, that must be nice... I wish I knew someone like that! That way I'd actually be able to get proper discounts instead of trying to haggle with a bunch of impatient people behind me. :-\
And it's the exact opposite for me. xD Most people just assume I know zilch about Chinese when they hear me speaking in English, when it's actually supposed to be my mother tongue.
Cantonese should be pretty easy for you if you speak Mandarin - it's just a dialect anyway. =]
And ChwibiKiwa, I love playing along with the old shopkeeper ladies. ^^
Southrop:
Discounts? How? I didn't get any discounts from any storekeepers, even with my staff pass O.o
But yeah. Cantonese is pretty hard for me. I simply can't get the accent right. I can get most of the pronounciations, but accent is hard.
Nethirel:
Really? I always imagined you'd get special priveliges with a staff pass... like free food and stuff xD
And yeah, the accent's a bit difficult to master I guess. Especially since Cantonese has more tones than in Mandarin.
I used to be able to speak Mandarin like a mainlander, but since I never get to use it, I'm nowhere near fluent anymore. It's such a shame; I hate seeing it all go to waste. :(
Southrop:
Nah. No privileges, you just get to enter for free, and have a stall xD
I just had to use Cantonese to communicate earlier today. I totally and completely screwed up xD
Thank goodness they still managed to understand me.
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