The wonders of language
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While my mum was watching the news just now, I had my back to the TV and I suddenly turned around and exclaimed “cheese!” when I heard an Italia interviewee saying “formaggio”, which means cheese in Italian. My mum was like “Ya… cheese. That’s what they have been saying in the news. ru lao.”
And I said, “Oh, I didn’t know ru lao is cheese in Mandarin.”
Sigh, 19 years of education in Mandarin, 6 months of education in Italian.
The amazing thing is, I didn’t even force myself to memorise the Italian vocabulary that I was taught yet a picture of cheese popped into my head as soon as I heard “formaggio”.
Somehow learning language isn’t taught, but caught.
The wonders of language.
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lovely diacritic? 
HAHAHA I DIDNT KNW RU LAO IS CHEESE TO! come to think of it i never knew what cheese was in chinese!
Comment by Nat 27 August, 2009 @ 11:35 pmI thought cheese is zhi shi – as in zhi zhi dan gao – cheesecake.
Comment by Josh 1 September, 2009 @ 12:12 pm