Use for-Foreigners: tne Baler ofthe Bane No" sarong Tome reh cama of governed Ue" Fes Oy ah wand Foe el a a Semple who senate! ni Matt send one eats tae ne" tee aero ete gens of tht caverns a Pace ated Ram's dean eae "tee ide par a diet lyf ne prone Hay yo what expecta, mot tldnar ade ian ieee ete aod sent ne Speck Clnese Ser Our Ue ie nae small figure, as compared with the cee They may argue that there are so) many different dialects in China that cee una tige Sue they 2 ent cig" ney era oh ata auch it boop went Pee eecand they tala NE! the ian, a te easy sere tat Pia ge hen anes ye? foes iter att dagt'e tow ete See ce ott ence fouls Coe tae ough a mat Anat aaler crunch at tolanes reaky tare sate Some foreigners may say that they sao tata he bee sok sao otaSht toe ere Welty long as they can afford translators, will be all right, But this ts mostly not the case, Our foreign friends! Let mo hope hat you wi start learning Mandarin now tu case you haven't, also hoped that those of el' for~ ign friends who can always afford translators, should try" to learn Mandarin in order to avoid the te. lous method of conversation with a third person In between. Tt 1s really Impossible for one person to learn the different' dialects of all the countries In the world, not to say' four hundred milieu people. Tt Is, however, easy enough and quite justidablo for these foreign residents our country to lena such a single dialect as Mandatin, "And remember hat, after all, it Is for your benoist, K. Ht. Chun, Shanghai, Jan, 26
Not Understood in Shanghai To the Baitor of the "Nonmi-Cutsa Dairy News" vocates the use of Mandarin as a medium' of communication between forflgners and Chinese, "Being one of the Unfortunaies who came a crop per through stumbling over the twenty-nine odd dialects some twenty years og, T have. found the inter-rotor sysiém quite adequate, Mowever this totter is written in a spirit of Inquiry. T'may os well say that the dialects caused so much station that "my acquaintance with the Language eedsed then and there. However 1 was told at that time to study: Mandarin, and Inqulred why, ud "what was Mandarin anyway, 1 was told to me that the so-called Mandarin was" the Manchu. dialect, and become" the" offclal language when the Manchus conquered Chins, at it" spread. to. all provinces through the offclals o¢ the provinces who had to know" it, when they went to the capital of the country, later made a requirement to hold effec, Having had for all this time I would like to have it: verified, or corrected.
Incidently, 1 was almost converted into a. Mandarin student tu 19 However 1 travelled from tientsin to 'Shanghai on the same steamer as an 'American 'Marine officer who, could read, write and speak Mandarin, and who' was quite proud of his know. ledge. TI was he who nearly converted me in Peking. However we arrived at Shanghai and he toft the dock before T did. "When T went on the street here. was the Hngulst"sur-founded by a bevy of rickshaw seolles.
He would talk to them, they would Uisten, then glance at one another and oar with laughter, Ho was furl say the least. I inquired where Wished: to go, resurrected the few words of the Shanghai dialect T knew, Spoke to the nearest coolie and the situation was styed. He would not Delleve it when 1 told him his dialect Was Just as foreign to the coshes as Was to me, insisted they were Insulting him because he wore a. unio form." One of my inquiries ts "Would
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