{"id":556,"date":"2012-12-27T15:15:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T15:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/?p=556"},"modified":"2013-08-19T11:57:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T11:57:27","slug":"knowing-the-right-words-can-save-your-life-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/knowing-the-right-words-can-save-your-life-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowing the Right Words Can Save Your Life (Part I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learning a second language is a great hobby but could it save your life as well? Of course it couldn\u2019t. Or could it? Well, I was having a think the other day about a few serious and a few not so serious situations in which this could be the case. Here are some of the cases in which I think that not knowing the right words could land you in hot water.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Food Allergies in Chinese<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was diagnosed with a few different food allergies a few years ago after a bottle of sparkling wine caused my upper lip to swell up like a small pink zeppelin. It was nothing serious and my Mick Jagger impersonation only lasted a few months but I was given about 30 sheets of paper with details of products I should avoid like the plague.  I didn\u2019t even understand half of the words in English so I don\u2019t know how I would have got on abroad if these had been really serious life threatening addictions. If you are thinking of going to China and have a serious allergy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/chinese\/\">I would suggest practising the right words in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/chinese\/ \">Chinese lessons London<\/a> offers<\/a> rather than taking any risks.   <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jSvPVt6ivBk\/TJLet0ygS4I\/AAAAAAAAD0g\/M2j8I_t21ro\/s1600\/1+restaurante+chino+2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning a second language is a great hobby but could it save your life as well? Of course it couldn\u2019t. Or could it? Well, I was having a think the other day about a few serious and a few not so serious situations in which this could be the case. 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