What should I say when someone asks me this question?

[Houzi88]

What would be a good response to somone saying, "ohh, you speak Chinese. What can you say?"

I always don't know how to respond.

[Song You Shen]

I always say right away, "你要我说什么？" ;)

宋悠神

[jbradfor]

I say the same thing when people ask me to "say something in Chinese!".

Then they usually just blink and change the subject.

[马盖云]

How about 我常常去长城！ :unsure:

[aristotle1990]

哦，青虫玲珑听筒

[Meng Lelan]

I always wear a pin on my lanyard with my work badge that bears the characters 我说中文 and my name in Chinese so I just read those out for them. They like that.

[msittig]

If I'm in the US, usually "Oh, basic formal and informal conversation."

In the US or in China, I challenge the person to start the conversation: "Ask me a question in Chinese, and I'll respond in Chinese."

[马盖云]

Aristotle1990, OMG there goes an hour of my life I'll never get back! My god I love the Internet! :o

[Kobo-Daishi]

Dear all,

I remember reading about that.

I found it quite funny especially seeing as there are more Asian students than any others among UCLA's student population.

From a March 15, 2011 Associated Press article titled "UCLA Police Eye Threats Over Anti-Asian Video":

The video sparked an immediate reaction at UCLA, where 37 percent of the school's 26,000 undergraduates are Asian, 32 percent are white, 16 percent Hispanic and 4 percent black. Many of the rest are international students, including more Asians.

It's a shame she's had to drop out of UCLA.

But what did she expect?

It would be like going to Harlem and saying there are a lot of African-American people.

Maybe she's trying to become a shock comic.

Or else the new Ann Coulter.

Kobo-Daishi, PLLA.

[Brian US]

The student apologizes, but still drops from school. Rush Limbaugh mocks Hu Jintao and he gets more listeners.

[Kobo-Daishi]

Dear all,

It probably was a publicity stunt.

According to her father's Facebook page she's planning to do more videos and is asking for suggestions to name her blog. That's what I read on the Internet. I didn't actually go searching for his Facebook page. Or it might just be a fake.

Anyway she's supposedly going to be in the audience of the shooting of a Jersey Shore reunion show.

I wonder if that link that Aristotle put up might not be hers.

Since who else would pay good money to set up a site just of that video?

Kobo-Daishi, PLLA.

[Kobo-Daishi]

Dear all,

Brian US wrote:

The student apologizes, but still drops from school. Rush Limbaugh mocks Hu Jintao and he gets more listeners.

Ah...that's nothing.

We'd expect Rush Limbaugh to be obnoxious.

Kobo-Daishi, PLLA.

[Lu]

I usually just say a little about where I am and what I'm doing (我现在在你的家，刚刚吃饭了，挺好吃 or whatever else is applicable). It's usually people who don't know any Chinese that ask this question, so it doesn't matter that this is not very interesting. I don't think I've ever been asked this by a Chinese person, they usually just proceed to talk to me in Chinese.

[Meng Lelan]

Oh, I thought this was for when a non Chinese person asks "oh you speak Chinese..."

[xuefang]

I hate this questions! When someone who doesn't know Chinese asks it's okey and I can just say something boring. But when a laowai with good Chinese asks I freeze and forgot how to speak. When a Chinese people ask I think a long time what to say and feel really stupid.

I've been thinking of learning some really impressive sentence that I could say everytime someone asks. Any suggestions for a good reply?

[blackmeow]

very good! this is a smart move!

对人说人话，对狗说狗话。

if someone has been kind to u, u should show ur kindness.

but if someone has been rude to u, just make sure ur rude to him or her. :rolleyes:

[blackmeow]

to xuefang:

'I hate this questions! When someone who doesn't know Chinese asks it's okey and I can just say something boring. But when a laowai with good Chinese asks I freeze and forgot how to speak. When a Chinese people ask I think a long time what to say and feel really stupid.

I've been thinking of learning some really impressive sentence that I could say everytime someone asks. Any suggestions for a good reply? '

try this one

'你又不是我爹妈，我会不会，管你毛事！'

’u are not my parents, whether i can or not it's none of ur business.‘

[renzhe]

If you want to impress them, you can always say 打东边来了一个喇嘛,手里提着 一包鳎蟆,打西边来了一个哑巴,腰里别着一个喇叭,提一包鳎蟆的喇嘛,想拿蛤蟆换哑巴腰里别着的喇叭,别喇叭的哑巴,不愿拿喇叭换喇嘛手里提着的鳎蟆,提鳎蟆的喇嘛急了,拿起手里的鳎,打了,别喇叭的哑巴一鳎蟆,别喇叭的哑巴也急了,摘下喇叭打了,提鳎蟆的喇嘛一喇叭,也不知，提鳎蟆的喇嘛,用鳎蟆打了别喇叭的哑巴一鳎蟆,也不知，别喇叭的哑巴,用喇叭打了提鳎蟆的喇嘛一喇叭,提鳎蟆的喇嘛回家炖鳎蟆,别喇叭的哑巴站那儿,嘀嘀嗒嗒吹喇叭.

No, really, try it

[jaded samurai]

In China?

I've heard it so many times I've lost interest in it. I just deny that I can speak it. Rarely gets pressed after that. If I really need to speak to someone in Chinese, then I'll use it.

Outside?

I stay humble and say I just know a few basic things useful for getting around.

[Matty]

Been a while since anyone posted on this thread I know, but here's mine:

我不会，我说的是英语。

or just a simple

我不会。