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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Most random Chinese word you know to impress locals?
I learned how to say "local anesthetic" last weekend (see other post) - jubu mazui 局部麻醉
What's the fanciest Chinese word/phrase you've learned here?
10 years 49 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
Serviettes (napkins) 餐巾来。The last character is not the right one...but it's darned hard to say.
The slang words - the shock of hearing a foreigner say them is ten times more than the usual shock e.g. 不三不四 (not up to much)。
Usually the new words that have come into the language : 纠结,囧 etc.
"Song Shu Gui Yu" literally translated "squirrel fish"
A local delicacy here in Suzhou.
Ask Hulk about how to ask for large chicken, apparently that always impresses the ladies in KFC.
Not much comes to mind but there's a tongue twister about eating a grape and not spitting out the pips that I can say pretty quickly. That seems to impress people.
The phrase that always got the most attention from locals was "tai guay la", "too expensive". For some reason, the moment I started to argue over the price of things, I was taken a lot more seriously.