I believe your position was definitively refuted by a Mr. Bart Simpson...Hate to bring the heavy hitters into this discussion, but you asked for it...
that's really not true, he proved nothing in the strict sense of the idiom. although i did think that episode was funny when i saw it.
no i actually think it's really cool that you know chinese. my roommate started taking Chinese a couple years ago but he was doing it because he has an asian girl fetish. i just hope you have more honorable reasons for knowing the language.