Monday, December 25, 2006

Honeymoon Domestic Consultant

From ChinesePod.com (A great website to learn Mandarin) is an interesting look at a phenomenon that is spreading in China... I would say especially in Shanghai. Young Chinese couples are getting married, but have no clue whatsoever as to how to take care of themselves, so their parents "offer" them a kind of domestic helper/consultant (蜜月阿姨) to make sure they won't ... well starve to death for example, or put their pet in the washing machine, who knows...

You can listen to the 3 minutes dialog below to know a bit more:


街语19 The Word on the Street is 蜜月阿姨 (mìyuè āyí)


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Merry Christmas! And happy festive season!
圣诞快乐!

1 comment:

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