ENGLISH / CHINESE ENGLISH, CHINESE

playingtoy

if Chinese is the official language in Canada.
if Chinese was first to immigrate before the white people.
if Chinese had the army to conquer all over the world and colonize places.

i am trying to be right. and yet. every time i run into a white person who is take a stand against me. i know i am going to lose. i need to speak their language. they don't have to speak mine. it was written in history all over the place that English is better than Chinese. and the truth: I do not have enough knowledge of their culture to be one of them.

if Robert De Niro had to learn Chinese to get into a movie.
Not Jacky Chan and Chow Yun Fat speaking English with accents.

I am new. I am blowing lots of water. and I don't know how to type in Chinese.

sometimes I don't know what to do. Cantonese is my mother tongue. There is nothing I can do about it. When I am surprised I don't say GEEZ. I say WAH. I have tried to brainwash myself to fit into their culture. But I don't like Betty Boop or Winnie the Pooh. I like Ding Dong. And I know Ding Dong.

I don't play hockey. I play ping pong.

So how am I going to explain all these. That white people in Richmond has become a minority group. WELL. I don't see any Chinese culture going around Richmond RCMP. They don't eat dim sum and Chinese tea. Only I drink donut and coffee. There is a Chinese version of O Canada. more like a translation. somewhere on the web.

Being an immigrant has to admit I myself and family somehow believe our country / place of origin is not as good. All my memories / knowledge associated with my birth place and people has a negative denotation. if there is anything I can do about it, it will be:

Telling our local firefighters: GAU FALL
Telling our peace officers: ALL BEI YAN DA GIP / ALL OAK KAY YAU CHAK

Consider it is their duty to handle you, they will not leave you alone.
But then one of them is going to ask: do you speak English?
And if I ever had the guts to reply: I do speak English. Do you speak Chinese?

ps. making phony phone call aka prank can be an offense without a proper setting as an entertainment platform

playingtoy

mr toppy.
would you like to do some thoughts exchange.
i know you are good.

playingtoy

麻煩請移玉步去開個新帖！
你哋係個度可以開開心心，無人搔擾你哋嘅討論！

i believe mr toppy has left. perhaps cux i am new.

playingtoy

if anyone ever bother to check the date i sign up my LYK a/c
i think i kind of understand why you ppl are replying to my message with 白痴仔 and 底能仔 now
if i were in public and receive comments like this from strangers.
perhaps you should be more careful / precise in dealing with ppl you are not sure about.

i've been cruising this site for about a year. realise there are some ppl here hanging out whom i have something in common with. and i started this ENGLISH/CHINESE forum today. as an opening gift

ps. i can imagine mr toppy being an audience watching some stupid stranger falling into his old identity. as it seems to be the way it unfolds so far

playingtoy

once again i had to admit my chinese culture is not as transferrable/mobile as english. they make words with 26 letters. and they keep moving forward like a british army.  and we (or my ancestors) stay within the same square. and doing little dances.

playingtoy

我係睇唔順眼個D人，一就入嚟就當正係ASIAN都識講中文。真係激死。你要當係人都識，我咪唯有扮唔識囉。即係，你嘗試過，講唔掂，我可以樂意幫你，同 你講中文，但係唔好老馮都講中文／國語。有時我好唔明，有D人，連少少英文都唔識，走嚟叫我幫佢申請開公司做乜鬼？！冇眼睇。
好嘅同胞我有遇過。SFU有個男仔，超好禮貌，係講RR聲嘅國語，唔會大聲講，讀書叻，又C文。有D嚟搵我做野嘅都好NICE。。。 不過大部份就。。。唉。

B仔 發表於 2009-2-9 10:10


And about learning English... when I was in grade 1 newly immigrant, i spoke barely a word of English & of course required to take ESL. after only ONE YEAR, from being an ESL student, I was transfered to TUTOR other peers to read english. Why? I used to go to the library to borrow 20 kids' novels to read every week. Learning English hard? What about French for us Chinese? I took French from Grade 1 to 12 too. I went from a C- in grade 3, to an A in grade 4 and ever since it's either A or B. From the lack of practice, I can't speak as good now, but at least I can read general French. You don't need to be pro, as long as you know.

B仔 發表於 2009-2-11 11:49

my plan C is to give up both english and chinese and become linguistically impaired

playingtoy

sorry。我篇野擺錯位。