Where to find language exchange partner ? (anyone wanna learn chinese)

You might want to try the website livemocha.com. I believe that site pairs you up with a language partner online.

I worked for a Chinaman in Chicago and I managed a restaurant. I was immersed in the language every day for about two years. I remember one day two people were speaking cantonese and I understood everything they said, it was like someone flipped a switch, I could understand them. Like a fool I didnt keep it secret, so they began to treat me different.

http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/

Bookmarked it a while back, hadn’t gotten around to using it yet.

@truecomedian – “also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature” – Walt

@Smashley
how awesome, you quoted that movie. A classic, how’d you know that??

@truecomedian – Didn’t. It’s just the first thing that comes to mind when someone uses that term.

@Smashley
You totally quoted The Big Lewbowski, see here
here http://www.bing.com/search?q=preferred+nomenclature&go=&form=QBRE&qs=n&sk=&sc=1-22
Is saying Chinaman bad??

@truecomedian – Of course it was the Big Lebowski I was quoting. You said “how’d you know that?” and it seemed that I’d accidentally guessed something unwritten in your answer. I didn’t. You said “Chinaman” and it reminded me of John Goodman.

And is it bad? Well… it’s definitely out of favor, but probably isn’t universally considered a racist term (yet). I’d put it in the same category as terms like Oriental and Negro.