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<p>[QUOTE="Desertau, post: 9986888, member: 86775"]Yes, they are many different languages, we have gone out to dinner often with a big group and sometimes there are conversations going around the dinner table in 3 or 4 different languages, that half the people don’t understand, in Beijing my wife can sometimes not understand their version of Manderine and she is fluent in Manderian, Shawhanese (sp) and Cantonese. One night after midnite we were trying to catch a taxi and he didn’t want to give us a ride… he was mumbling in Shawhanese because most people don’t speak the native language for Shanghai that we were bothering him he was on a break, an insult… the taxied drivers are funded by the government and not permitted to deny service, so to his surprise my wife replied on break, OK you can have a break and she called a friend… he got a month long break. There’s also something called black cabs that operate independently over charging those are illegal and to be avoided.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Desertau, post: 9986888, member: 86775"]Yes, they are many different languages, we have gone out to dinner often with a big group and sometimes there are conversations going around the dinner table in 3 or 4 different languages, that half the people don’t understand, in Beijing my wife can sometimes not understand their version of Manderine and she is fluent in Manderian, Shawhanese (sp) and Cantonese. One night after midnite we were trying to catch a taxi and he didn’t want to give us a ride… he was mumbling in Shawhanese because most people don’t speak the native language for Shanghai that we were bothering him he was on a break, an insult… the taxied drivers are funded by the government and not permitted to deny service, so to his surprise my wife replied on break, OK you can have a break and she called a friend… he got a month long break. There’s also something called black cabs that operate independently over charging those are illegal and to be avoided.[/QUOTE]
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