Sunday, July 27, 2008
Silly Eastern Europeans
I've been travelling around the Balkans a bit and I do get a lot of curious attention, one because of so few tourists and second because I'm probably the only Asian they've ever seen. And everyone asks if I German, Italian, or Russian. lol. Why would I speak German? I've maybe stepped foot in that country maybe 2 days at most and everyone knows the international language of business is English. I must really look German. lol I guess I should go back to Hong Kong and ask the random white person on the street in Hong Kong if they speak Korean. I once met this Bosnian guy saying what a pity I speak so few languages and that he could speak 10 languages. Mind you though, his English was so bad that it was mostly incomprehendable. He listed them out for me: Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian, Montenegrin, Slovene, Bulgarian, Russian, Macedonian, English, German. The first 4 are pretty much the same language with different alphabet maybe, the next 4 are very similar to the first 4, his English sucks, and his German probably can't be that great either. Hum... It's too bad all Chinese dialects are all lumped into one language or we could all be claiming to speak 3 or 4 different languages. And mind you there is actually a difference between Cantonese and Shanghainese unlike SErbian and Croatian.