User Comments - pretzellogic

Posted on: Picking Up a Friend at the Airport

hughborg707, do you work for VMware?  :) hahahahahahaha!

too bad we don't know how to say "VMware" in Chinese anyway.  Or HP, CA, IBM, Symantec, BMC, Accenture, Cap Gemini, etc.....

Posted on: Taxi to the Airport

sailorboy, yes, just listen to all the dialogues constantly.  You'll also start better avoiding pronunciation mistakes.

Posted on: Thank You Note

I think I know 5 characters in this letter.  But one of them looks like Peng! First time i've actually seen Peng used in anything....

Posted on: Thank You Note

interesting lesson.

Posted on: Getting a Driver's License

welhome, thanks for the info.

Posted on: Excuses for Being Late

Thanks lily_counselor.  I guess this is one of the exceptions to the rule that is going to take me awhile to understand. 

Posted on: Taxi to the Airport

prishishi09, is this your first time posting also? I'm not the welcoming committee by the way.

Posted on: Taxi to the Airport

matt_c, somehow, the people who are most skilled with Chinese don't seem to need mere taxi driver dialogue!

But I guess it wouldn't do for cpod to have dialogues like, "when your manservant Jeeves, forgets to bring your laundry in from 5 star cleaners, how do you admonish him?"

Best of luck to you!

Posted on: Getting a Driver's License

Interesting. I didn't know that you could rent a car you could drive in China, ala Hertz/Avis/Dollar and so on.  I knew that you could hire a car and driver to get you anywhere out of the way.

I get the impression that getting the license is the easy part.  The hard part seems to me that as a foreigner, I have different assumptions about how other drivers, pedestrians, bicyclists, etc. are going to behave when I encounter them. 

Posted on: Buying a Drink

John, I also drink Carlsberg way more than I ever did in the US.