I can Speak Chinese

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)

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