# So, I may need to pick up a little Chinese, or, was that a date? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 1, 2015, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-may-need-to-pick-up-a-little-chinese-or-was-that-a-date/711477 "2015-02-01T02:07:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2015, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-may-need-to-pick-up-a-little-chinese-or-was-that-a-date/711477/21 "2015-02-04T06:56:15Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > I wonder if Asian women find western men as exotic as we find Asian women? If you happen to be blonde, sure. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2015, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-may-need-to-pick-up-a-little-chinese-or-was-that-a-date/711477/22 "2015-02-04T12:03:45Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > If you happen to be blonde, sure. Better die my hair. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2015, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-may-need-to-pick-up-a-little-chinese-or-was-that-a-date/711477/23 "2015-02-04T12:28:16Z")
One of my high school buddies ended up marrying a women who only spoke Spanish. Now as an outside observer, I noted that his former girlfriends had always been the silent types - really silent and submissive. So this one who spoke no English was right in line with that quality he found attractive - or so he thought. As you can imagine, eventually she learned English and it turned out that she wasn’t really the silent submissive type after all! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-may-need-to-pick-up-a-little-chinese-or-was-that-a-date/711477/24 "2015-02-07T01:26:21Z")
Bother! A. tells me tonight that Z. has no permanent-resident card and is here on some sort of visa, but wants to stay in Canada… I should have guessed that she wasn’t interested in me for myself. I am no movie star after all. I suppose it makes sense though; why otherwise would she be so friendly to someone before finding out more about them? Still, no harm learning a bit of Cantonese. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-may-need-to-pick-up-a-little-chinese-or-was-that-a-date/711477/25 "2015-02-07T01:38:55Z")
> [@MikeG](#): > > 我隻氣墊船裝滿晒鱔 (ngóh jek heidínsyùhn jòngmúhnsaai síhn) this makes no sense in mandarin. Is it canto slang or just the bastardized output of a translation engine? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-may-need-to-pick-up-a-little-chinese-or-was-that-a-date/711477/26 "2015-02-07T03:35:45Z")
I put it into Google Translate and got back something strongly reminiscent of the old Python line about, “My hovercraft is full of eels”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-may-need-to-pick-up-a-little-chinese-or-was-that-a-date/711477.md?page=1)