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Home Front: Politix
Learn to speak Bidenese (short video)
2021-08-08
Forget Spanish, German, Yiddish.
Posted by:Besoeker

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Posted by: Glavick Whererong9495   2021-08-08 15:17  

#10  You really do have to use one of those winky emoticons or I’ll take you seriously, g(r)omgoru.

Sorry.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-08-08 13:54  

#9  You really do have to use one of those winky emoticons or I’ll take you seriously, g(r)omgoru. China is involved with Israel, and would like to be more so, so you being serious was reasonable, except that g(r)om junior is more or less adult by now, if I now recall correctly. It would be useful to understand what they are saying to one another in meetings, convinced that no outsider understands β€” which is why trailing daughter #2 (who wanted an international business career like her father’s) wanted to study it, before discovering that there were no evening classes available to her. So she settled for Japanese, and is now very appreciated at a Japanese company in the U.S.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-08-08 12:51  

#8  I was just kidding.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-08-08 12:39  

#7  I tried Mandarin once β€” we had just turned down an assignment in Guangzho, and it looked like it might come up again, so I took advantage of an offer made by a neighbour who is a Chinese instructor at the local university. My learnings:

  • get a musician to write out the five tonal thingies in musical notation, because it is really hard to master just by ear; make audio recordings of all lessons

  • because Chinese uses pictograms instead of letters, or even a combination of the two like Japanese, it is very hard to learn to read if one is not a visual thinker

  • some of us learn languages better when immersed rather than from books and teachers

    I tick all three boxes, darn it, and gave up after a year. Fortunately Mr. Wife never was transferred abroad again, instead relying on quarterly round-the-world tours to deal with his people beyond Cincinnati. Though I have to admit that in general I miss being an expat β€” as a family we were good at it β€” between my health and trailing daughter #1’s, it has been much better to be stationed here.
    • Posted by: trailing wife   2021-08-08 12:32  

    #6  [giggle]
    Posted by: Dron66046   2021-08-08 12:16  

    #5  HHHHEEEELLLLooo - I raise your $5.00 to $20.00 - contact me ---
    Posted by: JRBiden1600   2021-08-08 12:11  

    #4  Tonal languages like Mandarin make me nervous. If you say hellO (rising tone) you've just wished the guy you're talking to Merry Christmas. But if you say HELLo (falling tone) you've just offered the guy $5 for his daughter's virtue.
    Posted by: Matt   2021-08-08 12:06  

    #3  Three successive shell corporations and then 10% for the big guy. Perfect Bidenese
    Posted by: NoMoreBS   2021-08-08 11:53  

    #2  Bidenese is closely related to Chinese. At one time we sent a few folks Who spoke Russian to a special cross-over language school to learn Serbian. We called it Turbo-Serbo.
    Posted by: Besoeker   2021-08-08 07:30  

    #1  I'm thinking of sending Grom Jr. to study Chinese.
    Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-08-08 06:43  

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