Forums > Living in Kunming > Kunming Taxi Service Is Very Good sorry for bringing up this thread on top of the page again, I just got really angry this morning in front of train station. Nobody wanted use the meter and asking for double of normal price. I said to woman that is illegal and I can report her. She was laughing and pointing on ph.number on cab which I should call and complain.My gf is local and even KM-hua wasnt help. I've tried HCampo's style to record it on my phone, but they were laughing even more. I guess the local government and taxi head office know about this already ( I guess today is not a 1st day they doing like that ) and dont have any need to change it ( maybe just keep the drivers happy, give them feeling to make an extra bonus for early morning get up from the bed or something ), because otherwise I believe there would be already some guy/s to keep eye on it.
Forums > Travel Yunnan > 2.5 Weeks in Yunnan Alone With no Mandarin Go to Deqin, better then Tiger and people don't speak Mandarin either. Zang zu are friendly.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Chinese can still shock me! this is an old bad joke. We had a sort of comedy series 20y ago in Czech Rep. It was kinda black humor ( I dont mean aimed on black people ). They made similar advert but with gipsy kid. Mother used some bleach to wash the child and then, wow! kid was white and blond. Obviously they got hammered by media for that and later banned.
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Forums > Living in Kunming > Discrimination in ESL well, my point was pronunciation and accent. Im not sure about Korean Chinese teachers, coz Koreans we have in school ...no body can understand them when they speak Chinese. Of course if u r in basic level, you hardly distinguish the difference. I guess same with English here, like some non-native speakers can get away with lie being from US etc., with strong Russian, Italian or other accent.
In my opinion, kids actually very quickly pick up your pronanciation and accent, and the grammar is the last think they r bothered about. As u said "they just use and figure out what works". I was talking to my teacher's kid one day ( 8y old ). She spoke to me with Australian accent, then Ive learned she had an Aus. teacher for couple of months. So as I sad, I understand Chinese parents dont want their kid to pick up Eng. with some Italian or French accent.
Larung Gar: Sichuan's extraordinary Buddhist retreat
发布者The last photo is The Best! Good job Jan.
Czech visa service center opens in Kunming
发布者just little correction if I may. Czech Republic & Slovakia are separate countries since 1993. There r no borders between as they r in EU like others but they have separate embassies ( in BJ they r in the same building I think ). Just in case somebody doesn't know.
Czech visa service center opens in Kunming
发布者Good beer and nice girls in Czech Rep., why go to expensive Paris :-))))?
A conversation with brewer and pub owner 'Uncle John'
发布者hope there will be more guys like him in KM. cant wait to go for a pint and pay normal price. 25 is still to high for me:-( .
China's two-legged goat becomes minor celebrity
发布者poor animal, its eventually gonna die. When groves up, the body will get heavier and more of the balance, so it will not be able to move around much. Well I guess locals will make some small support with wheels for it at the back ( Ive seen it with a dog ).