I simply can't win !

Before coming to China I spent months learning Mandarin. I learned simply phrases (I love you, are you hungry, hug, kiss, do you have to go potty, are you tired, thirsty.) Well, as I stated in previous posts, she laughs her head off. Wait until you hear her crack up. She will laugh so hard that she usually chokes on her saliva.

So here I am in a store making a purchase and I am showing off my Mandarin skills and the woman asked me what province she is from. I reply Guangdong, /meizhou City. The woman starts laughing. At this point I feel my nose beginning to flare. The woman told me that that province doesn't speak Mandarin but Hakka.

I LEARNED THE WRONG FRIGGEN LANGUAGE !

Well I simply refuse to believe this, so I bolted back to the hotel, with a big "L" on my forehead, jumped online and googled Hakka phrases. I picked some simply phrases like "Come here". My child walks right over to me...So I said to myself, 'self ', maybe its a coincidence. I tried another phrase, and she understood it. So here I am in China, very capable of taking with everyone elses child but my own.
The two languages are completely different, not even similiar in anyway.

Simply can't win ! Vicki and Tracy, I suggest you go to Barnes and Noble and buy the cliff notes or the book to "Learning Hakka for Dummies"
Annette, you can forget about my conversion list on my refrigerator. It doesn't apply.