Michelle speaks Cantoness well, but broken Maderine. She and President Hu may talk to each other in english, assume his English is not as broken as Kwan's Maderine.....jesslily said:I'm wondering how well Michelle speak Chinese. Some American Born Chinese don't speak much Chinese at all. If Michelle does not speak any Maderine, I guess she can not communicate with President Hu.
You two both crackle me up.Piel said:Let's hope Michelle wore her bulletproof bustier!
The dialects in China sounds so different, almost like different languages. But they are in the same written characters. (Thanks to the King of Ching dynastics, about 2000 year ago, who was the one unified the chinese characters.) In south china, especially near Canton and FuChou, two valliges seperated by a mountain could speak total differently, one can't understand another.....guess it had something to do with the poor transportation within the country. ppl hardly move from one place to another....But now with more developed economic env, ppl can move around the country, so the maderine gets more popular. Although Maderine had been claimed to the official language in china (mainland) since 1950. All school student are suppose to speak maderine in school, but how could you inforce the rule when the teachers (in country side) can't speak themselves?attyfan said:heyang -- maybe you can satisy my curiosity. is it easier for a Cantonese-speaker to learn Mandarin than it is for someone who never spoke any of the Chinese languages/dialects, or, would learning Mandarin be equally difficult for both?
Mathman, you are adorable!Mathman said:Thanks for the link, Nymkfan.
I can face the day now, having had my Michelle fix!
MM
Mathman said:Caption this:
http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg...jury, ya shudaaha, bean dere to win the gold"
http://www.championsonice.com/images/btsimages/img_0582.jpgPiel said:Let's hope Michelle wore her bulletproof bustier!
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I bet it was great for Condoleeza as well. She is an avid figure skating fan."I was so honored to be at the White House, let alone be sitting next to President Bush and President Hu and at the same table as Condoleeza Rice. It was a huge honor."
That sounds frightening!!!Kwan was in a receiving line when she was pulled aside by Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld to show her a side room at the White House.
Do you think Mr. Lucash is a billionaire?MKFSfan said:Who is that with her? Is that the billionaire she went to the White House with?
Mathman said:LOL. Garrett isn't, but this guy is. (Well, his dad is, anyway.)
Here is Michelle's friend, Christian Anschutz (farthest left), at the opening of new facilities for the treatment of drug addiction at the "Anschutz Center for Advanced Medicine" at the University of Colorado.
The new facility was established by a gift of $10,000,000 from the Anschutz Foundation.
MM
If I'm not mistaken, that is the parking lot of the Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim (where I saw Champions On Ice last year). It makes sense that she would stop to pose at the closest venue to her home town.Mathman said: