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What dialect(s) can you speak?

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slyball

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i don't have a digital camera yet, but i've got some photos that i'll take to my friends place to scan.
i don't look asian, but i don't look fully german either, so when i speak canto to my mates people just look at me strangely :p

actually, my friend has a picture of me..

http://members.optusnet.com.au/apss/
 
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Originally posted by crazylilmonkee
haha
so ah fei whats ur full canto name? cos that really didnt make any sense to me :)
and winston, slyball what are your names?
i duno how to say it in canto here goes

if anyone know what Pang is in canto then yeah but here goes


Parn Horn Geet


Geet is as in uno Jay Chow's - Chow Geet Leun


yeah sumfing like that lol
 

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yea its quite easy. put yourself in my situation. i can speak english, canto and mandarin but i can only write simplified. my whole life is english even though i come from where i do - but im coming to aus!
 

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thats weird.. how come ur english is so good if u've in hong kong for all this time?
 

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Originally posted by Frigid

winston ah, there's also stroke recognisation input... you gotta know the strokes and stroke order - which means you need to know how to write... damn :(

it's not that hard to learn how to write..
i can write chinese much faster than using that crappy pinyin thing :(
 

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Originally posted by crazylilmonkee
thats weird.. how come ur english is so good if u've in hong kong for all this time?
its quite easy. im not exposed to it that often. my culture and my school, the people around me speak english or we speak slang stuff, but chinese i only need to use it out on the street occasionally...otherwise i have no use for it here.
 

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Originally posted by crazylilmonkee
ohh okay then.. where abouts do u live? cos where i stay, its canto mania
LMAO luckily my school has like only 8 chinese people

3 have no idea wat they speak besides english 2 mandos me and a friend and another friend speaks canto lol they cant speak it for crap.
 

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before the overload of overseas students there was just me and this mando girl.. then when the overseas arrived they all looked at me and couldnt tell whether i was a 'local' or an overseas student.. that was funny
 

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Originally posted by crazylilmonkee
before the overload of overseas students there was just me and this mando girl.. then when the overseas arrived they all looked at me and couldnt tell whether i was a 'local' or an overseas student.. that was funny
Post a picture!
 

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my school is predominantly asian... like 85ish percent?

pfft, lexi, stop faking it ;p

edit: oh, and i just realised u ppl dun sleep... ZzzZzz...
 

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Originally posted by slyball
i don't have a digital camera yet, but i've got some photos that i'll take to my friends place to scan.
i don't look asian, but i don't look fully german either, so when i speak canto to my mates people just look at me strangely :p

actually, my friend has a picture of me..

http://members.optusnet.com.au/apss/
Hehe :D are you rory heffernan? :D
guess who :p
 

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hello
my name is jun
nice to meet you all :p
 

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Originally posted by Newbie
hello
my name is jun
nice to meet you all :p
and thus was bastardised by the english language into 'John'.
nonetheless i still call him LUM JUN!!!
let's go hack some legs on moore park west!


*nostalgic about highschool... ahh, fond memories of lunchtime soccer... sniffles* :(
 

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