
The vocabulary dilemma
You Can Learn Chinese
The Importance of Proving Your Chinese Language Skills
As a young new civil servant in the US government it was really exciting watching those teams get formed and playing a very very small role in it but it really did wet my appetite to do more. "I will never forget the day that I was sitting in my secure facility where I worked in the state department in the phone rang" he says. 'The first question he asked me was do you really speak Chinese' The former consul general in Shanghai didn't test his English-speaker on the spot, she adds.
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