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Asians are bad at english

iruuliruul
edited May 2008 in Everything Else
I found this hilarious page that posted a Chinese restaurant menu with english translations. If I went to such a restaurant there would be no way I could stop myself from laughing long enough to give out my order.

http://www.rahoi.com/2006/03/may-i-take-your-order/

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  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    edited May 2008
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    How good is your Chinese? You have to look at this kind of thing, instead of being English versus Chinese (language) and instead look at it from the point of view of a first versus a second language.
    Post edited by Omnutia on
  • iruuliruul
    Haha, I am mainland born chinese myself and can speak it fluently. I am also studying Japanese and can hold a basic conversation with just the minimum amount I have studied so far. Learning other languages is not as hard as it seems. Either way, that is not the point of this post, I just wanted to show people some funnys.
  • KilarneyKilarney
    Haha, I am mainland born chinese myself and can speak it fluently. I am also studying Japanese and can hold a basic conversation with just the minimum amount I have studied so far.
    Pwned.
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    Ok, I suppose I took too much offense at the title but I get kinda sick of people complaining about people being at English when they themselves couldn't speak any second language at all. I think "Asians are bad at English" is going too far though, some, like yourself are good at it and you make it seem like there is a direct link between being Asian and being bad at English.
    Kilarney is wrong again.
  • iruuliruul
    The point of this thread was to share this hilarious restaurant menu I found, not to comment on asians and their english -_-". Did you even visit the link I posted? Guess I picked a bad thread name. By the way, America is the only country where someone can be considered educated without knowing another language.
  • KilarneyKilarney
    sick of people complaining about people being at English
    Yeah, the title should have been: "Omnutia is bad at English."
  • Victor FrostVictor Frost
    Haha! My, this thread had a delightful little twist, didn't it?
  • MrRobotoMrRoboto
    edited May 2008
    Actually Asians have the worst time learning eastern languages, I believe that people who speak languages rooted on Latin have it easier.

    For example, someone that speaks Spanish can learn chinese or japanese easier because spanish can easily emulate all the basic sounds, the only one I've seen people struggle is with the "sh" sound. We have all kinds of tenses for verbs and all types of really boring stuff going on, so we also gain an advantage with grammar and sentence construction moving from a more complex system to a more simplified one.

    Then, we have the other side, for example Japanese doesn't have the "rr" nor the "l" sounds in its phonemes so its harder for a Japanese to say "el carro esta roto" than someone thats speaks Spanish say "Konichiwa, watashi no namae wa __________." the same goes for chinese "Me llamo _____." is going to be harder, because you have to conjugate the verb "Llamar" that can mean either "to call" or the verb to indicate the name of something. for a Spaniard is easier to say "UO CHIAO _______" (I probably screwed the romanization there, sorry for butchering the language there.).

    Same goes for a native English speaker trying to learn Spanish.
    Post edited by MrRoboto on
  • CorbinCorbin
    This has gotten way to serious, it's funny people... actually look at the link, sheesh.

    Also if you haven't seen it before (which would be criminal): Engrish.com
  • DkongDkong
    If you want some truly epic lulz, go on the anime suki forums. The users, while are more intelligent than ANN forumers, are a high majority ESL, so a lot of the posts are jumbled to hell and back and have awful grammar.
  • KilarneyKilarney
    If the title of the thread, in context with the link, offends you - the internet just isn't the place for you.
  • Kate MonsterKate Monster
    Actually Asians have the worst time learning eastern languages, I believe that people who speak languages rooted on Latin have it easier.
    I would have thought people that speak other Germanic languages would find English easier (as it is a Germanic language). Romance (Latin-based) languages would be helpful for vocabulary, though.
  • ......
    edited May 2008
    actually look at the link
    What link? Your Engrish.com link? That's the only link I see in this entire topic. There's a URL in the first post though (sadly clicking it won't get you anywhere), went to that URL and grinned. It's still funny, even after several years.
    Actually Asians have the worst time learning eastern languages, I believe that people who speak languages rooted on Latin have it easier.
    I would have thought people that speak other Germanic languages would find English easier (as it is a Germanic language). Romance (Latin-based) languages would be helpful for vocabulary, though.
    Agreed, I think it's easier to learn English if you already speak a Germanic language, and yes, there are a lot of words in the English language that are derived from French words, which is a Romance (thanks for that word) language.
    Post edited by ... on
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