Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Chinese system of English

What sort of "Chingrish"?



When they awake, we mow…


Photo courtesy of Jessie Work.
Road sign found in China.





Photo courtesy of Jennie Svensson.
Pic taken in China.

3 comments:

Passion said...

Yes, while at one time when I was in Wen Zhou, China, those Chinese little school kids admired us so much that we spoke English. The whole group surround us (one of us was a Canadian white man)and appealed to us to teach them English. Much to their excitement, they yelled that they at last witnessed a white man. See how fun! We indeed made ourselves movie stars of the day. I even took photos of them.

Another incident,when I bought a food processor in the supermarket, I used English to speak to them and attracted the whole group came to me, I felt much embarassed and irritated for I was alone at that moment and thinking what had I done wrong. Only then I found out that they were university graduates and could not speak English well. They just wanted to hear me speak English to them. ..LOL..

Anonymous said...

oh ha haha...that is real funny oh dear! From the way they use dictionary to translate each and every word, they should just change their education syllabus a little with inclusion of english as second language to take the long term view of connecting with the outside western world.

Passion said...

I found that now most of the wiser ones go to work in Australian restaurants and hotels and at the same time they study English. But do not undermind them, cos Chinese are too rich and can buy the whole lots of the buildings. Because of them penetrated into the property market, they jacked up the price so much in Melbourne.

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