The NYT just posted a report on how Cantonese is being “swept aside” by Mandarin in Chinatowns of North America. This post has nothing to do with that story. The photo above is used by the NYT to illustrate a New York Chinese School... ...full story at Blogging For China
from Blogging For China on Wed, Oct 21 2009
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Tokyo Mew Mew - My Sweet Hear Multilanguage »
YouTube video Am I the first? I would hope so!
Languages in order:
Japanese
Mandarin Chinese
Cantonese Chinese
Korean
French
And so you see, the languages dub their own way.
The Mandarin chinese version kept the Japanese audio. |
| 29 Aug 08 |
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China: Chinese Lies » Global Voices C. W. Hayford from Chinese History group blog goes into various literature sources for discussing the “Chinese character” in relation to “face” and “lie”. It gives some background about the various Olympic... |
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More than just adding oil » CN Reviews “Add fuel?” “Let’s go?” “Olé! Olé! Olé?” “Come on?” One of the quirkier news stories that has come out of the Beijing Olympics is how to translate the ubiquitous Chinese cheer 加油 (jiāyó... |
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MSRA Couplet Generator » Virtual China I'm months late reporting about this, but PostShow posted a link to Microsoft Research Asia (read: Beijing)'s Chinese New Year couplet (i.e. coupled greetings) generator. Not much new, but I appreciate the incorporation of Chinese calligraphy elements in... |
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Mugabe’s gone missing and the post-congress blues » Beijing Newspeak I wrote a very foolish thing in a previous post. I referred to a story released on October 22 as “(seemingly) Xinhua’s final congress story”. It wasn’t. I somehow managed to forget about the in-depth ”analysis” of ... |
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Letter: Understanding popular Chinese notions about “racism” (help me out here!) » Blogging For China I have a growing suspicion that the way many Chinese people understand the word “racism” (or “racist”) is quite different from the way I use it. This causes communication problems because I use the term “racism” like... |
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