Archive for March, 2010
The Power of Hello Posted by Stephen on Mar 8, 2010
Upon your first visit to China as a 老外 ［lǎo wài] foreign guest , regardless of whether or not you speak the language, will almost always be an emphatic, yet English: HELLO! From school children to cabbies, random strangers to tour guide members the greeting is awkwardly pronounced, but western specific. Sometimes it would border…