So a while back I took a bike ride out into the country side. The city is surrounded by lots of farms. It was a beautiful day, and I ran into these little girls. They were walking down the street singing to each other really loudly. They walked right up to me without seeing me. When I said Hi, they got really startled. The girl on the right tried to get the other one to leave, but then I started talking to them in Chinese.
Here is the video so you can hear my Chinese skillz.
I will give you a very rough translation:
Me: Hello! What are your opinions on dialectical materialism? I believe the nature of reality is such that the rights of man are inherently apparent in all willful action, but…
Girl: White devil! I am so impressed with your advanced level of Chinese – you surely must have studied for years! But my associate and I have business to attend to; we have no time for your parlor tricks. Begone I say!
Me: Curses!
(Actually I just said: “Hi! I’m a teacher! I’m an American! I teach at Zhangye medical School! How old are you!” The girl said “7! and she’s 8!” and I said “7! 8! cool!”. But I think my first version sounds a lot better)
One response to “I can Speak Chinese”
cool