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[–] timochka@lemmy.zip 11 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

My experience of working in China outside the poster-child cities like Shanghai for over a decade is that practically nobody speaks a word of English.

So, in a nutshell, you're talking bollocks.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, which is why they qualified it with saying not useful unless they plan to work in the mainland.

[–] timochka@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

And presumably, not visit either.

Try buying a rail ticket, or asking directions, or talking to someone in a shop, or even just telling your Didi driver the last four digits of your phone number because he wants to be sure he's picked up the right passenger, with the "they'd prefer you speak English" theory.

And sure, if you're the kind of dumb yank who thinks nobody will ever need to visit China, you're probably right - you can stay on your farm in Dumbfuckistan fiddling with your cousin and wondering why everyone you know is on crack for the rest of your life. The rest of the world knows where the future is and it ain't Alabama.

[–] justaman123@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, but you misunderestimate how hot my cousin in Alabama is

[–] timochka@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

TBH webbed toes have never done it for me, but no kinkshaming from me

[–] justaman123@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Shi man, if those toes were webbed I could quit her