Rosebush(原創，真人真事）：Language Barrier

為保持故事的易讀性，我故意用英文寫的(no discrimination)

1. Viet Namese Real Estate Agent

One friend wanted to rent his house. He had a real estate agent who is Vietnamese.

One day this real estate agent called him and said “I have a good thing and a bad thing to tell you. I found a perfect tenant for your house. He has stable income. I did the criminal background and credit check, everything is perfect”.

My friend said: “so, why did you say there is a bad thing”. The real estate agent said:

“He has a Bai (Pinying), that could cause damage to the house.”. My friend could not understand what does “Bai” mean, but he knows if he asks what is “Bai”, it will be insulting. Instead, he said “what kind of Bai?”

The real estate agent said: “German Shepherd”. My friend suddenly understood he meant “Pet”, just he could not pronounce it very well. Then the real estate agent said : “ I thought about it. We can ask the tenant to add more money as a “Bai” deposit.

2. A Tourist from an Arab Country

In the Arab language there is no letter “P”, so they pronounce foreign words by substituting “B” for “P”.

One day, an Arab tourist came to visit US. He drove a car to a tourist place, but wasn’t sure if it was legal to park there. He saw a policeman walking by, so he asked the policeman: “ Can I bark here?” The policeman said: “You can bark anywhere, this is a free country”.

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• Resisting the urge... Should we use these stories to practice En -倪達業- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/27/2011 postreply 12:59:26

• 回複：Resisting the urge... -倪達業- ♂ (64 bytes) () 09/27/2011 postreply 13:00:00

• Sure, Go Ahead:) -rosebush- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/27/2011 postreply 13:03:39

• This is a free country:) -rosebush- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/27/2011 postreply 13:07:23

• you funny guy and insulting,hehe -春天永遠美麗嗎- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/27/2011 postreply 15:54:57

• You too:) hehe -rosebush- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/27/2011 postreply 16:10:48

• 報紙上看過一個相關的 -東土大糖- ♀ (202 bytes) () 09/27/2011 postreply 13:11:40

• 哈哈。。。。 -rosebush- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/27/2011 postreply 13:13:55

• ：）））他們都發不出來那個“P”的音？ -飛飛~~- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/27/2011 postreply 16:48:39

• 高手，哈哈，笑倒：：））） -rosebush- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/27/2011 postreply 17:11:17

• 哈哈哈哈，I'm dirty, she's dirty too. 不過漢語拚音沒有 be 這個拚法 -500miles- ♂ (183 bytes) () 09/27/2011 postreply 17:19:34

• You are right! Thank you. -rosebush- ♀ (65 bytes) () 09/27/2011 postreply 17:24:03

• 我沒有聽到他是怎麽說的，哪裏知道啊，猜大概是“掰”或者“拜” -500miles- ♂ (21 bytes) () 09/27/2011 postreply 17:28:26

• 謝謝你！我剛改了拚法！這首歌是送你的，記得這裏有人說是你的歌。謝謝！ -rosebush- ♀ (106 bytes) () 09/27/2011 postreply 17:33:54

• 謝謝，唱的真好，回去再多聽幾遍。 -500miles- ♂ (102 bytes) () 09/28/2011 postreply 04:53:07

• 哈哈，我記得有一次，估計幾個月前 -rosebush- ♀ (138 bytes) () 09/28/2011 postreply 08:56:35

• 哈哈，說明你也是二百五 ... -500miles- ♂ (22 bytes) () 09/28/2011 postreply 09:47:58

• 大家都一樣：）））彼此彼此。。。 -rosebush- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/28/2011 postreply 09:54:52

• You can bark anywhere, this is a free country。。。 -不明則問- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/28/2011 postreply 12:31:39

• 哈哈哈，you can bark anywhere -yy888- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/29/2011 postreply 08:31:28