Go for the it with gusto and it will happen! Good luck!Im the Executive Chef for a restaurant of one of the oldest private members club in Hong Kong, the majority of my day is dealing with other peoples 1st world problems. "My french fries were longer the last time I came, and why can I design my own dish from your menus? My 8 year old really had his heart set on caviar and pancakes, I am going to inform management about this!!"
Before that, Head Chef for another club over here, Sous Chef for a private chef company, Restaurant/Bar general manager, then USN for 12 years....
7 months and I finally leave this armpit of the earth, and hopefully in the Air National Guard and working in a small resort by our new house in Michigan, with goats, a pig and a few chickens......fingers crossed...
Nee HowI started out as an Army interrogator/translator (German and Chinese), and then after I got out, went to nursing school. I've spent the last 32+ years as a registered nurse, both at the bedside and in nursing management, civilian and military. For the last few years, I've been an infection preventionist for a rural healthcare association in Arizona. I've done a lot of teaching as well- first for a company called PESIHealthcare that sent me around the country doing seminars on Medical Surgical Nursing and Physical Assessment Skills, and then later, I also taught online for a university for a number of years in an RN to BSN program. I was editor of a nursing journal for a few years, too. Thanks to student loans, it will be a few years before I retire and try to fulfill another life dream of writing. It's OK that I have time before I retire, as I absolutely love nursing!
Nee How
Wo hau, xie,xie... ni ne?Nee How
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你好。我不会说中文
Nǐ hǎo. Wǒ bù huì shuō zhōngwén
hello. I don’t speak Chinese.
with a B&b and guests from all over the world, Google
translate is my friend
I was a Local Union President(Nonpaid) for 30 years, in a Federal Agency. Does that count for a Whore/Politician?Just a point of interest; I have not read politician or prostitute yet (oh wait, maybe those are the same job). View attachment 1057
I speak New Mandarin/Local. I cant read Characters or written English translation. I can write phonetic which is useless. I learned it from Ms Chen. Be careful with "Software Translators" as meaning is expressed by Voice inflection. one word can have more than 4 meanings. There are over 8 different, but related Languages in China. I couldn't understand most Chinese people, but I understand Ms Chen. Her Dialect is New Mandarin, Local Shanghai. I wouldn't be able to understand someone from Gwan Joe unless they attended High School in "New Mandarin". I cant even spell it. No Big, English is Taught starting in Middle School all over China. In Fact, a person must pass an English Test to get in to College. Its the Law now.你好。我不会说中文
Nǐ hǎo. Wǒ bù huì shuō zhōngwén
hello. I don’t speak Chinese.
with a B&b and guests from all over the world, Google
translate is my friend
I speak New Mandarin/Local. I cant read Characters or written English translation. I can write phonetic which is useless. I learned it from Ms Chen. Be careful with "Software Translators" as meaning is expressed by Voice inflection. one word can have more than 4 meanings. There are over 8 different, but related Languages in China. I couldn't understand most Chinese people, but I understand Ms Chen. Her Dialect is New Mandarin, Local Shanghai. I wouldn't be able to understand someone from Gwan Joe unless they attended High School in "New Mandarin". I cant even spell it. No Big, English is Taught starting in Middle School all over China. In Fact, a person must pass an English Test to get in to College. Its the Law now.
PS If you said what you wrote, in Mandarin, the Chinese person would look at you funny and possibly think you were Lying.
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I learned Chinese at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey , CA back in the 70s. Our focus was on Communist Chinese (Peking dialect) but I had instructors from Taiwan and Shanghai. We learned to speak, read, and write, but also learned the romanization (writing words with letters instead of characters). I prefer pinyin romanization over Wade Giles as it just makes more sense to me. I wish I was still fluent, but I am REALLY rusty. I go to the local Chinese restaurant to practice, but since my vocabulary is mostly military, it is hard to have a good conversation!I speak New Mandarin/Local. I cant read Characters or written English translation. I can write phonetic which is useless. I learned it from Ms Chen. Be careful with "Software Translators" as meaning is expressed by Voice inflection. one word can have more than 4 meanings. There are over 8 different, but related Languages in China. I couldn't understand most Chinese people, but I understand Ms Chen. Her Dialect is New Mandarin, Local Shanghai. I wouldn't be able to understand someone from Gwan Joe unless they attended High School in "New Mandarin". I cant even spell it. No Big, English is Taught starting in Middle School all over China. In Fact, a person must pass an English Test to get in to College. Its the Law now.
PS If you said what you wrote, in Mandarin, the Chinese person would look at you funny and possibly think you were Lying.
I hear ya. Ms Chen doesn't like speaking Mandarin with me, so I don't get to practice. Yet she tells her Chinese GFs shes teaching me Mandarin, when they offer to teach me. LOL I was at a Gunshow a few months ago. I saw a 300Blackout Upper on a table. A 40 ish Chinese woman and her Husband were running the stable(They own a GS in Globe). Her Chinese accent was almost gone. I asked questions about the upper and bought it. When I turned to go, I looked her in the eye and said "Shee Shee Nee". She was stunned and said in English "OH..I Don't Know What To Say" she collected herself, Then said Your welcome have a nice day in Mandarin. Apparently even Chinese people "lose It If They Dont Use It" we laughed.I learned Chinese at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey , CA back in the 70s. Our focus was on Communist Chinese (Peking dialect) but I had instructors from Taiwan and Shanghai. We learned to speak, read, and write, but also learned the romanization (writing words with letters instead of characters). I prefer pinyin romanization over Wade Giles as it just makes more sense to me. I wish I was still fluent, but I am REALLY rusty. I go to the local Chinese restaurant to practice, but since my vocabulary is mostly military, it is hard to have a good conversation!
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