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raylouie

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agresionpower schrieb:
alright, personally I'm quite fascinated by that region. but more the other side of the bay actually, like the Foshan-Gangzhou region, and the cities of Dongguan and Shenzhen. But that's only because of the rapid growth over there that just amazes me. and all the skyscrapers they are building there. I'm some sort of skyscrapergeek I guess :p
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We were there 11 years ago and it was incredible the amount of economic growth even in Taishan. There were tall building, business parks and new roads, where just 15 years earlier were farm lands and rice fields. I always say if you find a McDonalds in a small town in China, the area must doing well.

Speaking about skyscrapers, I think every building constructed in China, especially in Hong Kong has a Fung Shui consultant in all phases of construction, making sure good fortune for the building, the businesses and the people who work in it.
 
agresionpower

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raylouie schrieb:
We were there 11 years ago and it was incredible the amount of economic growth even in Taishan. There were tall building, business parks and new roads, where just 15 years earlier were farm lands and rice fields. I always say if you find a McDonalds in a small town in China, the area must doing well.

Speaking about skyscrapers, I think every building constructed in China, especially in Hong Kong has a Fung Shui consultant in all phases of construction, making sure good fortune for the building, the businesses and the people who work in it.
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the most amazing growth was in shenzhen I guess.
30 years ago it was just some fishers villages with a total of about 30,000 people. now it's about 13 million... it's just across the border from hongkong.

that entire area has about 120 million people in cities that are all prettymuch connected... it's going to be something like tokyo, but 4 times as big... which is just mindblowing.

I don't know about the Fung Shui.
But that would mean they have a lot of those consultants haha
 
raylouie

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agresionpower schrieb:
the most amazing growth was in shenzhen I guess.
30 years ago it was just some fishers villages with a total of about 30,000 people. now it's about 13 million... it's just across the border from hongkong.

that entire area has about 120 million people in cities that are all prettymuch connected... it's going to be something like tokyo, but 4 times as big... which is just mindblowing.

I don't know about the Fung Shui.
But that would mean they have a lot of those consultants haha
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The worse it is so crowded because the streets are wall to wall people. Many of the small villages where my parents grew up are now abandon with everyone working and living in the cities.
 
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ThunderZtorm schrieb:
Here's the deal. Every country in Europe has their own little language that they consider to be the ultimate language of all time.

However, almost ALL multinational companies will go "our internal business language is English, so know English, ok?" as it's simply easier than hiring a bucketload of interpreters and translators to do all the dirty work. So, naturally, English tends to end up being the primary language everybody learns.

Now, the OTHER languages you learn will depend on which country you're from. In Denmark, we would typically learn Swedish and German as they're our neighbor countries, and we'd like to be able to speak with them when they travel to our country as tourists. Speaking their language makes them happy and thus more likely to come give us more money another time. :p

Some Danes learn French or Spanish, but that's mostly a bit of cultural snobbery, really. We don't really use those languages, so it's used more to try something different. Generally Danes tend to be quite multilingual as we do know that nobody will ever really bother learning our tiny insignificant language unless they HAVE to. Easier for us to learn English, German or even French or Spanish. Also got friends who've learned Russian, Arabic, Japanese and Chinese btw :p


Anyway, in the big picture, there's three primary languages in Europe - Germanic, Italic and Slavic, and people tend to stick with their "own", so to speak.

Germanic being English, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch etc
Italic being Spanish, Italian, Romanian, French, Portuguese etc
Slavic being the general Eastern Europe - Russian, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian, Bosnian, Serbian etc.

So for a Dane it's much harder to learn French than English as it's a different base language, for example. Which is also why you'll see a lot of Italians and Spanish having a hard time with English.

Sorry for the long rant, but languages interest me :p
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And with this, you get the Belgian situation. Germanics against italics.
 
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ThunderZtorm schrieb:
Here's the deal. Every country in Europe has their own little language that they consider to be the ultimate language of all time.

However, almost ALL multinational companies will go "our internal business language is English, so know English, ok?" as it's simply easier than hiring a bucketload of interpreters and translators to do all the dirty work. So, naturally, English tends to end up being the primary language everybody learns.

Now, the OTHER languages you learn will depend on which country you're from. In Denmark, we would typically learn Swedish and German as they're our neighbor countries, and we'd like to be able to speak with them when they travel to our country as tourists. Speaking their language makes them happy and thus more likely to come give us more money another time. :p

Some Danes learn French or Spanish, but that's mostly a bit of cultural snobbery, really. We don't really use those languages, so it's used more to try something different. Generally Danes tend to be quite multilingual as we do know that nobody will ever really bother learning our tiny insignificant language unless they HAVE to. Easier for us to learn English, German or even French or Spanish. Also got friends who've learned Russian, Arabic, Japanese and Chinese btw :p


Anyway, in the big picture, there's three primary languages in Europe - Germanic, Italic and Slavic, and people tend to stick with their "own", so to speak.

Germanic being English, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch etc
Italic being Spanish, Italian, Romanian, French, Portuguese etc
Slavic being the general Eastern Europe - Russian, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian, Bosnian, Serbian etc.

So for a Dane it's much harder to learn French than English as it's a different base language, for example. Which is also why you'll see a lot of Italians and Spanish having a hard time with English.

Sorry for the long rant, but languages interest me :p
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Interesting read. Danke!

Guten Morgen to the rest! Less than a week!!!
 
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