On Language
Language varie from country to country. It differ not only in written and poken language but alo in geture.
Once my American teacher, Dr. Joe Johnon, went ont hopping. He wa urprled to find out that he couldn‘t even count on hi finger proficiently in China. He tried to buy ix orange. The orange eller couldn‘t undertand hi two handed counting when he howed him five left hand finger and one right hand finger. He wa alo confued when a driver aid he would pick him up at ix o‘clock, and held hi right band in a geture familiar to himelf. The geture wa not familiar a a ix. It reembled a pipe.
There were no trouble with the number one, four, and five. In China, we how the middle and index finger to mean two, but, for the American, it mean victory. The Chinee gueture for three, to American. mean "okay." The Chinee even i like many people from outhern Europe aad the Middle Eat geture to mean "money". A Chinee eight i like a ymbol for a pitol. A Chinee nine in an American TV tudio mean that you have thirty econd left to finih what you are doing. And a Chinee ten, to an American, can be an expreion of anger, but not if there i a pleaant Chinee face behind it!