You have been here for how long ? Four months now ?   Yeah , about .   Do you know Chinese better now ?   Oh , definitely . I remember , when I first arrived in Guangzhou , my girlfriend was haggling with a sales clerk over the price of a mobile phone .   Oh , yeah . Many Chinese like to bargain . It happens almost everywhere .   I mean , I understand that . But the speed of the conversation got faster and faster , until it seemed to me that they would fight . My perception of the tone was that it was a violent shouting match . The truth was that it was a perfectly normal conversation .   A shouting match ? You ’ re so funny . You must be exaggerating . I don ’ t believe it .   I am not exaggerating at all . I ’ m telling you the truth . That was how I felt at that time .   Yes , perhaps . Chinese usually don ’ t notice that sort of thing . Maybe it ’ s quite natural to us .   Yes , absolutely true . 