办公室的故事——Chinese and English

学人智库 时间:2018-02-10 我要投稿
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I#39;m an editor of a newspaper. One day a foreigner made a call to me. He said in Chinese that he liked our newspaper very much, which made me very happy. Then I said "Could you tell me some impression about our newspaper?"

The foreigner spoke a lot. But I didn#39;t know which language he spoke. It was not Chinese, nor Japanese. Was he speaking Spanish?"Could you speak Chinese? Which language did you speak just now?"I asked. After silence for a while, the foreigner answered with a little disappointment."I#39;m an Englishman. I spoke Chinese with you just now."Oh, my god, the tears came out while I was laughing."You#39;d better speak English." He began to talk and talked a lot. Considering that his Chinese was really poor, I tried talking with him in English.

After a few words, he asked, "Are you speaking Latin? I couldn#39;t catch any word that you said. I can understand a lot if you speak Chinese." Oh, my goodness. "Is my English really poor? No, I don#39;t think so. Maybe he is an Englishman who can not understand standard American English." I said to myself.

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