Chinese Lesson B12 - Do you speak English?

If your traveling alone or even as part of a group, getting lost is not an uncommon event especially when your exploring a new city for the first time. The need ask for directions back to your hotel or to a restaurant may not be so uncommon understanding the instructions may be a different matter. As part of the current Chinese education system most Chinese will have a basic understanding of the English language all you have to do is ask. In today's lesson we are going to show you how to ask if someone speaks English and to understand there response.

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Category:

Education

Tags:

• English
• survival
• phrases
• greetings
• learn
• Chinese
• Mandarin

[hatakah]

Who speaks English better? Her or him? Can't really tell...he seems to have a very strong Gaelic accent.

[NexIuguolo]

That's hilarious because I'm researching this to get people to stop calling me in Chinese. I live in Oakland near a Chinese district, and we get calls in some Chinese dialect often enough to warrant this research.

[mistermjones2000]

The problem with Zhongwen is while it exists as a phrase it does not exist as an actual language. In Zhonggua there are many languages that are collectively called "Zhonggua Yuwen" but individually have their own name and are quite different from each other. The most well known being Mandarin, Cantonese and Tibetan.

[Rohan4basu]

the subz r useless lol

[andyandy609]

I've never had to ask a Chinese person to speak English in China :| they kind of jump out of nowhere and speak English to you

[nimcompoop]

haha, this is so funny.

[dinobott]

pu tong hua

[zhaohui2008]

nice conversation, but i hope u can have the subtitle below...

[sonicjet700]

is that how you say "the common language"in chinese