Thanks for the input.

> ... You can perhaps go along well with
> English

It's worked well enough so far.
27 countries / republics / ... and counting ... :-)
Most of them had English as the or a major language though.
Or versions of it, as in eg the US :-)

> My first Oral English teacher is
> from New Zealand after he was laid off by NZ Telecom in
> the early 1990s.

What was his name. There's a reasonable chance of my knowing 
him.

> Be warned that things are not cheap in big shopping malls.

I'll have to wait until I get back to NZ to buy cheap 
Chinese goods in shopping malls then :-).

> And be careful of cheap things in terms of quality.

I know that lesson :-) - be it Chinese or other cheap goods.


        Russell


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