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Here on the city streets, you will meet spitting villagers and millionaires with salary. You will be able to see the incredible natural and human creations, but nowhere will you realize how great the power of the Chinese police is. Food can be found in a wide variety, but surprisingly there are few vegetarians here. Hospitals have two departments: Western and Eastern medicine, and the people themselves take care of their health in ways that are not very common for us.
– How did you spend eight years in China? What interested and attracted you to this country?
– My trip to China was very winding and a lot of fun. It’s funny because before I started studying sinology in England, I didn’t really understand what China was through the countries, I didn’t even know anything general about the language. Some of my classmates never returned to China for a year, it was too difficult for them to adapt to the local culture and way of life. Others learned everything immediately after learning Chinese after studying. I was very lucky to learn the language and enjoy the country.
– Learning Chinese seems impossible, how did you manage? I have heard that not only what is said in Chinese, but also the tone that is said.
– I speak seven languages, but learning Chinese was difficult. For three and a half years, I sat in the exercise book practicing the characters for a couple of hours every day. It would be an objective to compare this with learning in the primary grades from a journal, only the biggest difference is that learning to spell the alphabet well is not enough to learn Chinese. You need to learn to type thousands of individual characters individually. Sure, the characters have some kind of system, but it still takes a lot of work.
You need to learn to write thousands of individual characters.
After three years of studying, I almost gave up and all the way back I wanted to go home, but half a year later I suddenly started talking. With tons, it is also quite challenging. If you learn some new words but pronounce them incorrectly, no one will understand what you mean.
Once at McDonald’s, I tried to order a Sprite drink in Chinese, which in Chinese sounds like “shuiebi,” and I said “shabi,” which in Chinese means a terrible expletive. I asked the tellers once, a second time, and this one is just laughing and looking at me. Thinking that maybe I hadn’t heard him, I repeated that unfortunate “shabi” several more times, but with growing anger. After a while, he somehow realized what I was trying to order and handed me a drink. It was not a very pleasant experience for a long time.
So learning Chinese is possible, but it’s really not a relaxing way to spend your free time. You must be determined to study for several years, almost daily.
– Reading the stories of other travelers gives the impression that the Chinese are not nice people: they spit not only on the street, but also indoors, push their elbows in rows or even growl loudly and spoil the air. Still, some accommodations refuse to accept foreigners, there are even guests who ask for guests in the middle of the night. Why is that?
– First of all, it was not until 1978 that China began to escape hunger and poverty when Deng Xiaoping came to power. In four decades, China has transformed from a village to a rapidly prosperous country planted with skyscrapers. Clearly, it is difficult to change such a large country so quickly and many farmers are still registered in a rural address. People are willing to migrate from villages to cities, where wages are higher, so because of rapid change, everything has been in one place: both the villagers who cut the streets, who came to the cities to make money on construction quickly, like millionaires with salary.
The second is an authoritarian country. All foreigners living or coming to China are classified as being watched by the police and have strict administrative rules.
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