Commerce - 2:44 pm on Jan 20, 2008 (gmt 0)

Habtom Ni Hao,

I've started to learn. ;-)

Sadly, most people who speak English as a second language speak it far better than I do their language.

Learning even a few phrases of someone's langauge goes a long way to improve relationships - even if one is pretty awful at speaking another language (or even have just "gist" translated the language), at least one knows they are trying.

While we are on the topic. Which dialect of Chinese is the most well known in China? Also, can many Chinese people read Chinese in the English ASCII character set?

Zai jian,

--Commerce