What Your Favorite Chinese Phrase Says About You

You can tell everything about a person by their favorite Mandarin phrase So let's play a little game Pick one of these phrases just one Ready Okay I see Alright let's start normally Hide 1 I'm full already If this is your favorite phrase You are not here to learn a language You are here to eat sugar through China You are on a mission a journey A retreat You have learned the language enough to live in a Chinese family's feast or the feast of a Chinese family You are not interested in the language of the temple You don't care about the language you don't care about the character But you know how to say I'm full to avoid the Chinese bosses It gives you extra sugar when you 'ready to come back You're not a student you're a warrior who eats food Duolingo can't help you now Only Hotpot can If your favorite place is a hot spring you've definitely lived in China long enough to make some friends and look for your own bad side You learned the word "suoi biet" from your Chinese friend who says it all the time You thought it meant I'm easygoing But actually it means I'm giving you a trap disguised as a choice You ask "What do you want to eat " Your Chinese friend says "Hot spring " Then you order food Then you said Not this So you also started saying which makes you sound smart But in reality it makes you speak passive-aggressive Your foreign friends think you're laid-back Your Chinese friends think you are testing their love Additionally you are definitely pain of a person Therefore the person says What do you want You're like a secluded stream And the waiter goes Sir this is a Huawei store Look you're no longer a tourist You've assimilated maybe too well Number 3 Tui is good Sorry This is your favorite Ok You're either A Canadian B Raised by guilt C Or just really afraid of saying the wrong thing in Chinese You apologize before you even speak Someone says Hello And you're like You are nice I'm sorry I was born with a Western tongue But let's be real You're sweet A little anxious Probably flinched the first time someone corrected your tones But you care And that's beautiful Number 4 I'm not good at Chinese My Chinese is not good If this one is your favorite you've been through some things You've looked into the eyes of a Chinese taxi driver tried to explain where you're going And watched your soul leave your body This sentence is your emotional support blanket You say it before every conversation as if you're lowering expectations Hi yes I'm about to disappoint you But here's the plot twist Your Chinese is actually pretty decent You just have language trust issues You're the type who gets complimented by a native speaker and immediately goes No no My Chinese is not good Like someone just accused you of being too attractive Stop I'm ugly I swear Stop it We get it You're humble Number 5 A little bit Yes The bargain warrior You didn't learn Mandarin from textbooks You learned it from the little streets of Beijing and maybe some online shopping website like Taobao Your fluency exists In one very specific context Shopping You walk into markets like Hello My Chinese Questionable My haggling skills Elite You 're not even shopping You're hunting for Emotional satisfaction Your life motto is "If I paid full price I failed " And honestly I admire you You are the reason no vendor trusts foreigners anymore So What does your favorite phrase say about you No matter which phrase you chose one thing's for sure You 're out here learning a language that literally has 4 tones 3 000 characters and you still hesitate if you're saying dad or poop And you are still learning You deserve a round of applause If your favorite phrase was not there feel free to leave a comment below Maybe I'll psychoanalyzeyou if you did Though don't take it too seriously I'm Leo See you next time Bye for now