Hi Bong. First learn how to say it first because mandarin is very similar to english in terms of pronunciation.

Funny thing, I did try to learn Chinese way back but nothing gets stuck in my brain. Maybe I’m not just good with languages. But you’re right, if anybody has the money and will for it, Chinese and Spanish are great languages to learn.

Thanks. Great blog.

Believe me you are right coz’ China will be the next superpower. A new era is in the verge to exist in the world market.

I’m fluently English and french (written and spoken with no accent on either) and can hold my own with Spanish but living in SoCal there is simply nowhere convenient to go and learn on a tight schedule.

Trade ya some mandarin pour du Francais ?

Great blog btw - Jean Harris

Nah, my name is Deimos.
I live in Malaysia.

Hock Chew is a sub group of Chinese.
Chinese, generally, are known as Chinese.
But there are divided into several sub groups.

Say:
Chinese
- Cantonese
- Hokkien
- Hakka
- TeoChew
- HockChew
- HaiNan
etc

Like when you are playing Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition, you have races, and then there are sub races.

i.e.

Elf
- Dark Elf
- Moon Elf
- Shadow Elf
- High Elf
etc

Human
- Tiefling
- Aasimar
etc

Get the picture?

Cheers!

#2 You can pretend you don’t know and keep listening to those secrets that pass by your ears everyday.
This is one of the main reason for Chinese to learn and master their respective dialects.

Since more and more folks are learning Mandarin. Nowadays, there are many ang mohs / mat salleh who reads, writes, speaks Mandarin extremely well!

I am a Hock Chew by the way.

Where do you hail, Ronald?

Cheers!

Regards,
Deimos Tel`Arin