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Pandas are Turning People Into Baozi

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Gaius Baltar
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States449 Posts
February 12 2012 13:43 GMT
#1
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Alright, let's turn an eagle into a horse. Wait...


Hi guys,

I've been away from the forums the last five months because I'm doing a year-long intensive Chinese language program in Beijing. I'd like to share a little of what I got up to last semester:


Pandas Are Turning People Into Baozi: The Movie


Note: due to record label copyrights we were unable to publish on youtube. Youku is the Chinese version of youtube which, while more highly censored, has more relaxed copyright regulations.

Third year students--the level just starting to get confident with conversation ability--were divided into six groups. Each group was given two weeks to write and translate a story as well as film and edit it, all the while attending 4 hours of intensive language class each morning. We were required to speak only Chinese and include footage of interaction with locals.

After the two weeks we had a screening of all six movies, and our group was voted best picture. Let me know what you guys think, especially any native Chinese speakers. Hope you enjoy!

*****
Chaggi
Profile Joined August 2010
Korea (South)1936 Posts
February 12 2012 13:59 GMT
#2
oh god this is so great, the closeups to the baozi made me die
Synwave
Profile Joined July 2009
United States2803 Posts
February 12 2012 14:10 GMT
#3
I giggled a lot, thanks for the entertainment
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heha
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Australia425 Posts
February 12 2012 14:49 GMT
#4
I'm not going to watch this for 2 reasons:

1. Your chinese will be worse than mine, and I'll just cringe so hard that I won't be able to watch

2. Your chinese will be better than mine, and I will die in shame as it's confirmed I am a fail asian

Haha, the screenshot preview looks funny, 5/5 for pushing your boundaries and dumping yourself in a new environment ^^v.
Random for life! phoneheha
Ixas
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
930 Posts
February 12 2012 15:22 GMT
#5
youku hates my country. wun load
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saint_fu
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada61 Posts
February 12 2012 17:56 GMT
#6
As someone who is also studying Chinese, but in Canada, this was a very entertaining watch! (Even though I only understood like 10% of it)
jubil
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States2602 Posts
February 12 2012 18:45 GMT
#7
Thanks for the subtitles, I don't know any Chinese, but this was pretty funny, especially the interactions with locals : P

Also horray for the starcaft at the end!
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Tal
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
United Kingdom1014 Posts
February 13 2012 01:27 GMT
#8
Good stuff

It's really well produced, and your Chinese is very good. Talking nonsense to the locals was really brave too.

I didn't quite understand from the op- are you a first year or 3rd year student? You say you're doing a year long course, but also that the task was for 3rd year students... 我不明白
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Mobius_1
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United Kingdom2763 Posts
February 13 2012 01:59 GMT
#9
This director is so much better than George Lucas. There were some super literal English-to-Chinese expressions though that don't really make sense in Chinese. Which makes it funnier IMO :D

Oh, Ixas, Youku doesn't even like China much. The spinning circle T__T

Nicely done OP, but I think I may have ate your family last week. I'm sorry.
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Mobius_1
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United Kingdom2763 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-02-13 02:00:24
February 13 2012 02:00 GMT
#10
Sorry
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Gaius Baltar
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States449 Posts
February 13 2012 04:04 GMT
#11
Tal,

All the students who come to this program arrive with different levels of language skills. Third year means you've already taken two years back in the States, or your skills are thereabouts at that level. So now I'm a fourth year student since the first semester of intensive language classes here was enough to boost my skills to that level.

Mobius,

Yeah we made sure our English subtitles were funny even if it meant the Chinese was nonsensical in places. Our audience was a bunch of American university students, after all.
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