Hi Jeff,
I'm in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, about 2.5 hours by train
from Shanghai. Very hot and humid here too.
Bernie
--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, jeffc@n... wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Bernie Kornowicz wrote:
>
> > Jeff,
> >
> > Since most Cantonese speakers nowadays also speak Mandarin,
Mandarin
> > is the most widely spoken language in the world. In China, the
most
> > popular foreign language is English. All Chinese children speak at
> > least a little English. It's taught in all primary and secondary
> > schools. I think that within 20 years all Mainland Chinese will
speak
> > English and Mandarin. I'm currently in China teaching English to
> > Mandarin-speaking children, as well as sharpening my own Mandarin
> > skills by having to teach them in their native language. Cultural
> > exchange is where it's at.
>
>
> ...and cultural insults are not.
> i'm not real crazy about some of the things china has done.
> [tibet and burma come to mind...]
> but it's still just lame to make fun like that.
> i find fart humour more tolerable than that kind of thing.
> yeah - i'm tired and cranky, but i kinda expect a bit more
> from the folks on this list, many of whom i know and love.
> so i get home after sitting in 95 degree heat in a traffic
> jam for 3 hours and read my email only to find this?
>
> so you can all go to your rooms without dinner and no tv.
>
> that's really cool that you are in china!
> what region?
>
> anyhow: i vote we ALL learn esperanto.
>
> cranky and deliriously tired,
> jeff
> smooches
>
> [and this STILL has NOTHING to do with mellotrons...]
>
>
> > So what does this all have to do with Mellotrons? Not a darn
thing.
> >
> > Bernie
> >
> >
> > --- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, jeffc@n... wrote:
> > >
> > > real funny guys.
> > > make fun of the way people in another country talk?
> > > what are you, freakin 8 years old?!
> > > grow the fsck up please.
> > >
> > > guess what? there are more people that speak chinese than speak
> > english.
> > > [yes - that's mandarin and cantonese combined]
> > > english isn't even second.
> > >
> > > cripes.
> > > cranky jeff
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
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