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annie40 發表於 13-11-16 23:35
往北京重新學習中文一年 ... I wonder what kind of Chinese could be learned in one year, enough to go from zero to finding a "好工"?
Reality is, most international students in Hongkong who are ethnic Chinese know how to listen and speak Cantonese, even if they did not learn it from their parents they would have picked it up from the environment, unless they live in a seclusive ex-pat bubble like Disco Bay and never ventured out, but not many ethnic Chinese live in such bubbles. That one year in Peking is likely to be just learning how to master Mandarin, which is entirely possible if one already knows Cantonese.
It is true that international school students may be very weak when it comes to reading and especially writing Chinese, because Chinese characters are many orders of magnitude more difficult to write compared to an alphabetic language, but how many "好工" really require good Chinese writing skills? May be writing the wall menus in a 茶餐廳 is one, incidentally I'm always amused by how beautiful the handwriting is on these wall menus, given that the people who wrote them are unlikely to be very well educated.
Newspapers and magazines (and the media in general) like to use extreme cases to attract eyeballs and hard-sell a certain underlying agenda.
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