Mangling the language all part of the learning curve
By thomas talhelm | China Daily | Updated: 2010-04-29 08:01
"Little monkey, c'm'ere a moment!" The man sitting next to me beckoned.
It was my first time in southwestern Yunnan province and I thought my Beijing-trained ears might have heard him wrong amid the clamor of the noodle stall, so I stopped eating and listened.
Soon, a woman looked up from her bowl and shouted: "Little monkey, maidan - check!"
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