Category: Language
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Cold out? You need a bowl of sugar
People need to be careful about what they say and how they say it in Chinese. How is there a story if every word is the same?
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I understand! But don’t ask for an omelette
For a tone-deaf foreigner attempting to speak a language with four tones, this was high praise indeed. Speaking Chinese is difficult.
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Geek world heaven
Taiwan is a great place for tech. You can buy the latest electronics as well as bigger gadgets, many not sold elsewhere.
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It’s raining. You need a banana
‘A table is not a relationship’, I hear myself saying, a sentence I’m almost certain I’ve never said before.
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Moving to Taiwan aged us 11 years
It’s not just the date that can be confusing in Taiwan, and which makes everyone seem to be 11 years older. Numbers are different too. Is a 20 ping apartment for 4 wan good?