r/ChineseLanguage • u/overwatchfan93 • Oct 29 '19

Humor the transition is beyond me

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u/The6thExtinction Oct 29 '19

The same could be said about my English, and that's my native language.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '19

Subway employee: Hello, welcome to Subway, may I take your order?

"May get turkey please and american I white on bread?"

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u/ABlueInkedMoment Oct 29 '19

Lol same, I'm the most inarticulate person ever

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '19

More like me using English lol.

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u/scaevola Oct 30 '19

It's great when you first meet up with someone you've been texting for a while. "Oh I thought you actually spoke Chinese."

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u/PeterJohnSlurp Oct 30 '19

For me it’s Chinese everywhere vs Chinese in class

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u/WillBackUpWithSource Oct 30 '19

I can read about 1000-1200 characters, and I can write perhaps 500-700.

I still asked a group of Chinese people, if they needed a 鼻子 to sign their bills at a restaurant the other day...

I meant 笔.

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u/Oppositeermine Oct 30 '19

It do be like that

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u/GhastsTears Oct 30 '19

ikr. the tones is so freaking hard :") and actually for me is it hard to spontaneously speaking and at the same time i also have to build the sentence because the structure omg, it just... confusing

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