This is a hilarious recording! I swear I used to have an Ayi who sounded just like this. I could never figure out what she was saying.

The worse thing was my Chinese was absolutely primitive back then, so the communication problems went both ways. I'd get into these elaborate pantomimes asking her to clean the washroom, or separate the whites from the reds when doing the laundry. She'd just look at me with this puzzled expression on her face. We eventually settled into a live and let live relationship, her doing the housework as she saw fit and me staying out of the way.

Every now and then she'd cook too. Which was a problem since she wasn't a good cook but I didn't know how to tell her to knock it off and would feel guilty about leaving the food in the fridge until she came over the next time. So I'd end up going out of my way to throw it out before she came. In retrospect, I can't believe I was leaving the building to throw out fried rice just to avoid hurting her feelings.

There's a lesson idea for you anyway. "Please stop cooking for me". It'll be a hit - I promise.

Hangzhouhua? ha ha ha. I'm going to start saying "na saydi" for 拿手 and 我来听听.

That was tricky. By the way the English part of the popup for the last line of the text goes off the bottom of the screen in my browser.

@weijin,

“再会”和“再见”是一个意思。普通话里也会说“再会”，有一点儿书面语的性质，不过一般说“再见”。

“扫扫地”和“擦擦地”的翻译反了，现在已经改过来了。

--Echo

echo@popupchinese.com

特别棒！什么时候开始“泡泡吴语”啊？ =D