[Larry_OHF]

Originally posted by Rimjaw: 'Thank you' in chinese is 谢谢 or 'xie xie' in phonetic. What the waitress gave you is 'Do jey' which is 'thank you' in cantonese (a chinese dialect). Learning Chinese is ok at a conversational level but writing *shudder*, ten years of education and I still such at it.

Thanks! I guess she did not think it mattered to me that there is a difference in Cantonese and Mandarin.

My father in law knows Mandarin really well... I would like to impress him but I guess I have a long way to go. I speak Spanish and understand Portuguese...but would like to take up French or Italian next. He says that Mandarin is the most important to learn, as more people speak it than any other language in the world.