Comments on: How to Foil an English Pirate http://www.chitchatchinese.com/?p=113 Chit-Chat Chinese Thu, 18 May 2017 05:31:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 By: Bryce Hathaway http://www.chitchatchinese.com/?p=113&cpage=1#comment-115 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:25:50 +0000 http://chitchatchinese.wordpress.com/?p=20#comment-115 Wow, the 哈 technique sounds awesome. I think it is more likely to work in China than in the United States, though.

]]> By: Kaiwen http://www.chitchatchinese.com/?p=113&cpage=1#comment-46 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:05:00 +0000 http://chitchatchinese.wordpress.com/?p=20#comment-46 AFAIK, Maxiewawa was the first to post online suggesting “哈?”, or as he calls it, the HA? technique.

Basically, you just pretend you don’t understand (in the same way a Chinese speaker does), and then immediately understand when the person speaks mandarin. I have tested this, and it works quite well. Maxiewawa says it is designed for shop interactions. Caveat: you need to actually understand chinese when they start speaking it to you for best effect.

]]> By: Carl http://www.chitchatchinese.com/?p=113&cpage=1#comment-45 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:40:25 +0000 http://chitchatchinese.wordpress.com/?p=20#comment-45 I keep encountering the same pirate at a local expat bar, its getting kind of annoying. I don’t like to just push people off to the side so I’ve endured is leeching until now, I think I will just ignore him…

]]> By: Magnus http://www.chitchatchinese.com/?p=113&cpage=1#comment-44 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:31:47 +0000 http://chitchatchinese.wordpress.com/?p=20#comment-44 I meet a lot of pirates. It’s annoying. My thoughts are the same. If my Chinese is so good, according to you, then why not help me practice. NOOOOooooo… fine. Maybe one way to make them speak Chinese back to you is to speak nonsense English. They won’t understand a thing… then hopefully switch to Chinese.

But then again… if they don’t switch to Chinese…that conversation would be pretty funny.

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