I Meant Chinese Style (Not Chinese Food)!

With a slight change in pronunciation, foreigners can often be misunderstood when speaking Chinese. One of the ways this happens is when a foreigner refers to something having a “Chinese style”, but ends up getting mistaken for having said “Chinese food”, which is what happens in the following video.
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If you are speaking of something having a Chinese style without adding “r” sound–a suffix–to the end, then you may be misinterpreted by Chinese people as referring to Chinese food instead. In fact, the “r” sound appears both in mandarin Chinese and some Chinese dialects, and Beijing people use this kind of dialect most frequently. So if you are learning Chinese or interested in this language, adding the “r” sound to some of your words and your pronunciation may make you sound more native like.