Friday, March 11, 2011

Macdonal's delivery in Chinese!

Very interesting day today!
We ordered Macdonal's delivery cos we were working on our learning journal until it was too late/too cold to go out for food. (Nothing to do with our laziness at all!)
So like I went to google for the procedure to order Macdelivery and like there was an option for English, which made things easier for me. Or so I thought.
I ended up talking to the operator in Mandarin cos she couldn't hear me say Heping Avenue, so I had to say 和平大道 instead and the conversation took off in Mandarin.
I must say though, her English was quite accurate and she kept repeating herself in English every time she spoke in Mandarin.
After settling the order, the deliveryman called me to double confirm our address. I answered with the China accent (no harm/insults/whatnots intended, it just came naturally) and like went:
Wei? - Hello?
Shir-shir - Yes yes.
Eh, dyui dyui. - Eh, yups yups.
Ah, dyui, hao ma er-er-er! - Ah yes! Number 2 2 2!
Har-o de! (with the tongue roll) - Oooooooooooooooooo-kai!

Never excepted myself to spend over 15 mins on the phone just to get dinner. Back in Singapore, the phone call usually last hardly 3 mins, apart from the waiting time to get to speak to the operator. So comes my first experience of having a language barrier. I ought to be thankful both the operator and deliveryman spoke slow enough for me to catch what they were saying.
KIDS! -That being anyone reading this- Listen to Chinese class if you want your food delivered to your door step! Time to start (selectively) appreciating what's being taught in School.

Sorry for the boring and wordy blog post. Will get pictures from Dawn soon!
BK

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