"graham" > wrote in message
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> On 25/09/2014 7:01 PM, Cheryl wrote:
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>>>> Boron
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>>> At an "upgrading" high school in this city, some Chinese students were
>>> talking among themselves about what they would like to do to the
>>> stunning, typically Scandinavian blonde teacher. She turned around and
>>> let fly in fluent Cantonese. She never had any discipline problems after
>>> that.
>>> Graham
>>
>> I would love to learn a Chinese language. I regularly have my nails done
>> and the girls are all Chinese, or Korean in the case of a couple of
>> them. Most of them chitty chat on and on to each other in Chinese and
>> I'd so love to know what they are saying.
>>
> I have just remembered another one.
> The son of a good friend lives and works in Japan and is fluent in
> Japanese. He was on a train with a Japanese family and the 2 children were
> poking fun at him not realising that he understood every word. As the
> family got ready to exit at the next stop, he told the parents that they
> ought to teach their kids good manners.

My eldest granddaughter is learning Cantonese in preparation for 2 years in
Hong Kong

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