My hubby related the following incident to me yesterday :
On his way home last night, he came across a group of China women at Little India MRT station. They seemed to have encountered some difficulties and were unable to seek help from the MRT staff as the MRT staff could not speak Mandarin. They approached my hubby and he acted as an interpreter and helped them solved the problem.
At the end of it, they thanked my hubby and asked him, " 你的华语说得很好，请问你是本地人吗？" ......
We both agreed that, though that was a simple question, but it speaks volume. The women were surprised that a Singaporean could speak fluent Mandarin. What does it show? I guess, even a fool would know the answer.
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I was approached by Koreans several time when I was in Korea. Do I look Korean? keke. They were so surprised when I spoke "Sorry, I am not Korean" in Korean. ^^
Your Korean must be good, that's why they mistook u as a Korean. Those PRC said that sentence to my hubby cos the Singaporeans they have spoken to, have problems communicating in Mandarin.
haha.. i had the same encounter !! pretty funny. PRC thinks that i am from china and Taiwanese thinks that i am from Taiwan.. and Eurasian thinks i am not local cause i have slight slang in my English.
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