The moment my cousin gets her arse out of the shower and dressed we're heading off to the train station to catch the overnight to Beijing for the weekend. I am excite.
That's cool. If you don't mind my asking, what type of company does he work for? Like to hear about what type of work brings people here(especially if it's a non-Chinese company since those only seem to do so-so here for the most part, does he speak Chinese? I know enough to get around/not freak out when lost, though Beijing cracked me up since the people there talk like they have marbles in their mouths).
Oh, and it's 'zai jian'. It's used for 'good-bye' though technically means 'see you later'.
Not a problem :). Let's see...he's president of five companies. He started out as vice president (aka glorified salesman) for one company, but over the last 19 years founded and built four more sister companies. They sell coolants and lubrication stuff for the most part. The guys in the lab invented this stuff called Ice32 and Zerol Ice that makes air conditioning run better and more fuel-and-cost efficiently around seven or eight years ago, which is the product I know most about. Back in 2000 my family moved to England to start and company there, and a two(?) years ago opened the office in China (but we didn't have to live there that time).
As far as I know, they've had a pretty good success selling their stuff in China, since they broke into the market pretty early.
My dad doesn't speak Chinese, but is interested in learning, possibly via Rosetta Stone or a similar program. He's quite busy between his job and our family though, so he hasn't had the time.
My dad really inspires me to be honest, he's come a long way from the boy from the dirt-poor family who worked as a lumberjack (seriously) to put himself through college.
That's fairly awesome. Also glad to hear that his company is doing so well. My cousin works for a business magazine, or something like that(they've been doing a lot of focus on the Shanghai Expo lately), and loves to tell tales of Western companies who came to China for a piece of that 1.3 million consumer pie(ignoring that a large part of that are too poor to care for such goods) and end up failing due to their inability to bridge the cultural gap, or something of that nature, and/or adapt to the differences in what's needed/wanted.
My dad doesn't speak Chinese, but is interested in learning, possibly via Rosetta Stone or a similar program. He's quite busy between his job and our family though, so he hasn't had the time. Understandable. I mean, I know people who don't have any excuses and have been here for years, ex. this Aussie expat English teacher in Guangzhou who'd been there for 15, and can hardly speak a word of it, so at least he wants to learn. Personally, I want to learn a lot more so I can bug the hell out of my cousin. :)
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By the way, what does your post title mean?
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Oh, and it's 'zai jian'. It's used for 'good-bye' though technically means 'see you later'.
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As far as I know, they've had a pretty good success selling their stuff in China, since they broke into the market pretty early.
My dad doesn't speak Chinese, but is interested in learning, possibly via Rosetta Stone or a similar program. He's quite busy between his job and our family though, so he hasn't had the time.
My dad really inspires me to be honest, he's come a long way from the boy from the dirt-poor family who worked as a lumberjack (seriously) to put himself through college.
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My dad doesn't speak Chinese, but is interested in learning, possibly via Rosetta Stone or a similar program. He's quite busy between his job and our family though, so he hasn't had the time.
Understandable. I mean, I know people who don't have any excuses and have been here for years, ex. this Aussie expat English teacher in Guangzhou who'd been there for 15, and can hardly speak a word of it, so at least he wants to learn. Personally, I want to learn a lot more
so I can bug the hell out of my cousin. :)