It's more than just perfecting your chopsticks technique or struggling to learn Mandarin. Living in China - indeed, living anywhere abroad - changes you, as Matt Prichard reports.

以为练习使用筷子，努力学习普通话就是在中国生活的全部？那你可就错了。在马特·普里查德看来，中国生活会给你带来许多改变——其实，我们只要生活在国外就一定会发生变化。

I have now lived in China longer than it took to get my bachelor's degree. While no one is going to confuse me with any of my Chinese colleagues or friends, the experience has definitely made a difference in my daily routine and how I see the world. In my estimation, it has been a positive change.

我在中国呆的时间比在大学呆的时间还长。当我和中国同事、朋友在一起的时候，外人总能一眼认出我是外国人，但在中国生活的这么些年确实影响了我的日常生活乃至世界观。而且在我看来，这些都是积极影响。

Some ingrained laowai (foreigner) habits are hard to break: I still sometimes forget to ask if I should take off my shoes when visiting another person's home. Yet, it was a revelation to make a list of 50 ways I have become more Chinese, and in particular, more of a Beijinger, in ways big and small:

有一些根深蒂固的“老外”习惯仍然难以改正：比如去拜访别人家时，有时我还是忘了问需不需要换鞋子。但当我列出了自己越来越像中国人，尤其是像北京人的大大小小五十个行为方式后，连自己都觉得出乎意料。

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