http://www.spanishprograms.com/blog/2009/12/culture-the-tacano-hand-gesture/ Spanish Learning Updates, Tips, and Tricks Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:16:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.spanishprograms.com/blog/2009/12/culture-the-tacano-hand-gesture/#comment-2536 Kate Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:13:17 +0000 http://www.spanishprograms.com/blog/?p=212#comment-2536 Hi Dave, This is in response to the newsletter culture article about taking photos. I lived in Beijing for almost a year. When they take photos, they say "eggplant" in Mandarin. It sounds similar to the word "cheese." Eggplant is qieza, which is pronounced "chee-ezz-uh". We thought that was interesting! Often when I was taking photos with a group of just Americans, we would say qieza instead of cheese. Kate Hi Dave,
This is in response to the newsletter culture article about taking photos. I lived in Beijing for almost a year. When they take photos, they say “eggplant” in Mandarin. It sounds similar to the word “cheese.” Eggplant is qieza, which is pronounced “chee-ezz-uh”. We thought that was interesting! Often when I was taking photos with a group of just Americans, we would say qieza instead of cheese.
Kate

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