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12-09-2009, 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz View Post
There's an entire island of people called "Hong Kong" filled to the brim with trilingual people who speak English, Mandarin, and Cantonese extremely well.
You'd be surprised how bad a lot of people from HK are at English and Mandarin. But I agree with the point you're making.

As for the 4 tones thing... just count yourself lucky that you can manage it, lol. One by one, I agree it's very easy, but putting them together is VERY tough. It's like a tongue twister; each word is very easy to pronounce, but put together, they're a b***h!
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