05-12-2022, 06:39 AM
(04-12-2022, 08:26 PM)debono Wrote: I am yet to see Africans and Indians speak Cantonese............
You should go HK. I was at the airport check-in and spoke English to an Indian lady back in the 1990s in my first project there. She was really irritated and spoke to me in Cantonese. Then I remembered that second or more generations of Indians, angmos, africans in HK do not speak much else besides Cantonese. Nowadays I think they won't get irritated so easily as I believed the service is much better.
That incident reminded me that back in my secondary school when some students from HK came to visit my school for some ECA. I kept speaking to a Caucasian in English. Finally one of my schoolmate pulled me aside and told me that the Caucasian is irritated as he cannot speak much English. Not that he spoke some other Western language like German or French etc. He just speaks mainly Cantonese and a bit of Mandarin.