Originally posted by barney.winkel at 26-3-2010 11:53
just out of curiosity, how many bros on this forum don't speak any mandarin or cantonese but regularly go punting in hk? do you tend to stick with english speaking wg's or do you visit non-english spe ...
I'm sure nobody knows what the stats are, bro, but I can say that dealing with agents and WGs has done more for my proficiency in both dialects over the past two years than the expensive lessons the company is providing at the moment.
The teacher who comes to our office twice a week keeps remarking that I seem to be getting in more practise than any of my colleagues with the PTH and I just smile and tell him I talk to 'tourists'. I would never tell him what kind of tourists I've been chatting with! I have a great little English to PTH dictionary and and have learned useful words and phrases that the teacher doesn't have on his agenda like "wo-men tui yifu, hao bu hao" which means "let's get undressed, OK?"
That phrase is not going to appear in the office curriculum until pigs learn how to fly! LOL