Rough Love

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Rough Love
uPick

Nice bear, very big.

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My girlfriend is Chinese, she speaks perfect English but I have been studying Chinese in Xi'an (China) for the last four weeks and last week her family insisted that we go to family friend's wedding, largely because the girlfriend's dad was trying to start a business with the bride's father. One of the gifts for the newlyweds was a big teddy bear, so when I was presented to the couple as the foreign-face-for-hire I thought it would be a nice gesture to demonstrate my new lingusitic prowess; already knowing that xiongmao meant panda, I proceeded to compliment the couple's cuddly toy and I said to the bride: "Hao xiong, hen da (Nice bear, very big)." Unfortunately the word 'xiong', the way I pronounced it, also means chest.

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