oh i love this story, which i heard over dinner from one of the east asian studies grad students who is learning mandarin. i think cindy and poach will love it too! my friend could never understand a word of chinese before this, but he loved listening to chinese and cantopop anyway. this week, his third week of chinese, they did "directions and spatial orientation" in class, and when he came home, the song on his playlist was "dui mian de nu: hai kan guo lai" and he suddenly understood what he was hearing: "wo zuo kan, you kan, shang kan, xia kan!" oh! isn't that gloriously funny? it's the perfect song!