. A'Chu and other stories. spelcan uproot. But before we can gain the confidence of the Chi-nese people, or even become acquainted with them, wemust learn to speak with them in their own nativespeech. It will take a long time to learn to speakwell, but it will take a yet longer time, our teachersays, to get acquainted with Chinese ways of doingand thinking so that we can teach the message wehave come to bring, without offending the people whohear. This great city is just the place to live whilewe study the Cantonese language, which is the dialectspoken in the two southern provinces of China. O
. A'Chu and other stories. spelcan uproot. But before we can gain the confidence of the Chi-nese people, or even become acquainted with them, wemust learn to speak with them in their own nativespeech. It will take a long time to learn to speakwell, but it will take a yet longer time, our teachersays, to get acquainted with Chinese ways of doingand thinking so that we can teach the message wehave come to bring, without offending the people whohear. This great city is just the place to live whilewe study the Cantonese language, which is the dialectspoken in the two southern provinces of China. Our house faces Pearl River, and is three milesdownstream from the Sha-mien, as the foreign settle-ment is called. Buried here in the heart of a greatChinese city, we seldom see a white face, but we enjoygetting out to talk with the Chinese people. It helpsour ears to catch these language tones, and we areeager to learn. The people are very friendly, and too polite tonotice the blunders we make in trying to speak their8 113. © U. & TL. N. Y. LOOKING DOWN INTO SHAPPAT-PO STREET, CANTON 114 Canton from Day to Day 115 language. Judging from the correctness with whichthey guess at our meaning when we really do not sayat all what we mean, they must be very keen andquick to understand. Tai So, the woman who liveswith us, is different. I said to her, Please turn thelamp low when you leave this room. A few moments later the odor of smoking oil spreadthrough the house. Looking for the cause, we found
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