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Visitors' Langscape
Visitors' Langscape
---Languages for visitors in Shum Shui Po
Shum Shui Po may not be one of the selling spots in Hong Kong tourism and it is also not a great shopping place in locals’ eyes. We went to Apliu Street, a famous street for selling electronic products. The street was fairly noisy and our ears were filled with the sound of peddling. The sound of Cantonese which sometimes mixed with Putonghua reminded us this is a place for Chinese.
As a matter of fact, it was not difficult to come across visitors here. While taking photos for the shops here, “Kururu” encountered different people, who came from various countries. We interviewed some of them. It was really a great and precious opportunity for us to know more about them! Let’s see what they have said.
First and foremost, we met a tall man while he was walking in the street. We invited him to have an interview with us. The man is called Didier, which was a tourist. We chatted in Englishm. However, “Kururu” was incredibly amazed that when Didier said his native language is French, because we had had been talking in English. Didier also said Shum Shui Po was a good place, the people were so nice but there was so populous. But he thought the English level of people there was not so good and therefore it was so inconvenient for him to have conversations with others.
We also met another visitor--Mr. Nelson, who came from Britain. Nelson said Shum Shui Po was a cool place which was full of people and goods, and the people there were very kind. Nelson also thought that there were less people who could speak English well.
After interviewing two westerners, we met two Africans. Certainly we went ahead and had a talk with them. They were Kisubi Mohamed Muwadha and Kyeswa Charles. They came from Uganda. They owned a company and went to Shum Shui Po for trading electronic products . Although they are not from European countries and their mother tongue is not English. It was still not a problem for them to communicate with us in English. They said Shum Shui Po was a nice place to do business, and the people there could speak simple English.
We also meet some mainland Chinese and had conversations with them. One of them was an anonymous lady who visited Sham Shui Po with her child . The lady said the district was noisy and crowded, and she could communicate with the people in Cantonese because her native language was Cantonese. She also thought people there could speak simple Mandarin, but it was not easy to find someone who could speak fluent Putonghua.
After interviewing some visitors, we had several opinions about Sham Shui Po. Generally, we found out that the visitors had quite good impression of Shum Shui Po. However, the English level of the people here can still be improved so as to have communication with foreign visitors. Moreover, it is obvious that Cantonese is the most common language to communicate with others in this district.
---Languages for visitors in Shum Shui Po
Shum Shui Po may not be one of the selling spots in Hong Kong tourism and it is also not a great shopping place in locals’ eyes. We went to Apliu Street, a famous street for selling electronic products. The street was fairly noisy and our ears were filled with the sound of peddling. The sound of Cantonese which sometimes mixed with Putonghua reminded us this is a place for Chinese.As a matter of fact, it was not difficult to come across visitors here. While taking photos for the shops here, “Kururu” encountered different people, who came from various countries. We interviewed some of them. It was really a great and precious opportunity for us to know more about them! Let’s see what they have said.
First and foremost, we met a tall man while he was walking in the street. We invited him to have an interview with us. The man is called Didier, which was a tourist. We chatted in Englishm. However, “Kururu” was incredibly amazed that when Didier said his native language is French, because we had had been talking in English. Didier also said Shum Shui Po was a good place, the people were so nice but there was so populous. But he thought the English level of people there was not so good and therefore it was so inconvenient for him to have conversations with others.
We also met another visitor--Mr. Nelson, who came from Britain. Nelson said Shum Shui Po was a cool place which was full of people and goods, and the people there were very kind. Nelson also thought that there were less people who could speak English well.
After interviewing two westerners, we met two Africans. Certainly we went ahead and had a talk with them. They were Kisubi Mohamed Muwadha and Kyeswa Charles. They came from Uganda. They owned a company and went to Shum Shui Po for trading electronic products . Although they are not from European countries and their mother tongue is not English. It was still not a problem for them to communicate with us in English. They said Shum Shui Po was a nice place to do business, and the people there could speak simple English.
We also meet some mainland Chinese and had conversations with them. One of them was an anonymous lady who visited Sham Shui Po with her child . The lady said the district was noisy and crowded, and she could communicate with the people in Cantonese because her native language was Cantonese. She also thought people there could speak simple Mandarin, but it was not easy to find someone who could speak fluent Putonghua. After interviewing some visitors, we had several opinions about Sham Shui Po. Generally, we found out that the visitors had quite good impression of Shum Shui Po. However, the English level of the people here can still be improved so as to have communication with foreign visitors. Moreover, it is obvious that Cantonese is the most common language to communicate with others in this district.
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