Chinese Test Fail

By Confused Laowai | Date: November 3rd, 2011 | Category: Class

No, it’s not me. I finished those almost a year ago. This time it’s a poor fellow who will probably fail his Chinese test. Have a look below. At first I did a double take, ’cause I wasn’t exactly sure why he wrote 下面的话 and 对不对. But look at the question!

Chinese Test Fail

Hilarious! Poor guy. However, I wouldn’t go so far as to completely fail him on that question. I mean, his assumption wasn’t that far off and is actually a clever parallel translation inference.

(via reddit)

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  • http://twitter.com/tofc Edwin on Languages

    Haha, funny!

  • pt

    Is it strange that someone who can
    answer the 5 questions still can’t figure out what is the meaning of 下面的话 and 对不对
    ?

  • http://niel.delarouviere.com NielDLR

    Good question. Sometimes you just have some cognitive dissonance. Your brain fooling you. Maybe the person had a gap for those exact words.

  • s kim

    It can’t possibly be 下面的话 that he failed. Sounds like a 对不对 rumor.

  • ordinary malaysian

    The poor guy obviously thought that 下面的说 means true and 对不对 means false!

  • http://MandarinSegments.blogspot.com Greg

    I was really nervous while I was waiting for the image to load … I was scared that I might not “get it”, and that I might have failed too!  I am now totally relieved!

  • http://niel.delarouviere.com NielDLR

    Haha, don’t worry, “fails” usually are pretty obvious ones.

  • 堤 李

    This guy is so poor, being tortured by Chinese, and in the same time misled by the question.

    In fact, this guy’s answers are all correct!