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^^^ rhymes with cob, means "fresh off the boat". I hear it mostly used by American-born Asian kids to insult immigrant Asian kids for their stereotypical fashion sense and study habits and stuff.
This whole issue about learning Mandarin is ridiculous. This means that these people could possibly be scared to learn English (because of a potential "Loss of Culture").
It's good to learn another language. The way the global economy is heading Mandarin may very well be the language of commerce. It doesn't hurt. But hey, seriously, all of Miami-Dade county in Florida is like this with Spanish. I had a phone interview with a recruiter who was amazed at well I spoke English. I was also turned down for another interview because I didn't speak fluent Spanish to work for NBC Universal's IT department. Hope those neighborhood people learning Mandarin go on to get MBAs as well.
I think Flushing is pretty good. I never had a problem communicating over there....maybe some of the Grandmothers don't speak English...but that's true anywhere you go.
I'm learning Spanish so I can communicate in my neighborhood!
Ha... people often talk to me in Spanish here, and I respond in English, even though I have no idea what they're saying, and our conversation just goes back and forth like that, and it usually ends up working.. especially in the food places, lol.
A guy in my building - that doesn't have a whole bunch of Chinese residents -is nonetheless taking Mandarin and Cantonese classes.
He's not an international business exec but a retiree who for years has been ordering food deliveries from neighborhood Chinese restaurants. He's trying to figure out what the deliveryman always mumbles in Chinese whenever there's a delivery to his apartment and cash has been exchanged for food.
I think that's extreme but, hey, it's his to learn. I do wonder, though, if the mumbling has anything to do with the fifty cent tip he always gives the delivery guy.
Ha... people often talk to me in Spanish here, and I respond in English, even though I have no idea what they're saying, and our conversation just goes back and forth like that, and it usually ends up working.. especially in the food places, lol.
Same here. I'm already Dominican-Puerto Rican, so I've been talking Spanish since childhood. It really helps in Upper Manhattan, the West Bronx, and Northern Queens.
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