Month: December 2010

I know they speak Irish in Ireland but is there a name for that language? Like in China they speak Chinese but the language is called Mandarin, in India they speak Indian but the language is called Hindi. What is the Irish language called?

I know this has been asked many times, but i would still like to make sure whichever i learn first (i plan to learn both) is applicable. I read that mandarin is more of a "set in stone" language, where as cantonese is harder and has a lot of difficult …

I learnt mandarin chinese for 6 years in elementary school, so I know a few words, strokes, and basic sentence structure/grammar. My vocabulary, however is very limited. I’d like to take it up again but I actually cannot afford real classes at the moment. I’m thinking of buying a book …

i would go off on those little Korean nail salon ladies if i could understand them and they were talking junk about my fingernails and toenails. I would start speaking in their language, it might not be Korean, it could be Mandarin, and start fussing them out and talking junk …

I’m going to China near Shanghai and I read that the language spoken there is Wu. Would a Mandarin phrasebook be okay or should I get one for Wu? Do they speak both dialects in the Shanghai region? I read that the news is still in Mandarin there.

Besides a class too expensive, I just want to know what the fastest most efficient way to learn it is. I want to go to China but no money.

What does "we xi mah" mean? & What does "tuay la" mean? Thanks in advance.

@ Kimtonone: You got it wrong, Bruce was born in San Francisco