How to Talk to Your Wife's Family

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Chinese has lots of different dialects and ways of speaking it. I'm being insulted in the Guangxi or Guilin dialect of Chinese. Hallewa, hallewa is a powerful insult in that part of the country. It's much worse than you'd think for just calling someone a silly egg. But yeah, no, so Chinese is the is the priority.

James Harris is a writer, comedian, English teacher and language learner (French, German, Chinese) from England. In this funny chat, we talk about learning Chinese, being married to a Chinese woman and his semi-autobiographical book, "Midlands" which tells several funny and touching stories about two ex-pats living in Germany; Stuart, who is a stand-up comedian trying to understand the Germans, and Doug who gets involved in a love affair. James reads several passages from the book during the episode.

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