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Become a Local Laowai

Posted on August 5, 2015August 5, 2015 by Jo

If you have, or intend to, spend any amount of time in China, of word that you will learn rather quickly, whether you want to or not, is laowai (老外). A literal translation is “old foreigner,” but in modern colloquial Chinese it is often just translated as “foreigner,” which means someone who is not Chinese. Walk…

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