Okay, folks. Time to throw down a bit and strut your stuff. Now and then I’ll take a movie line, or a piece of dialogue and try to figure out how I’d say the same thing in Mandarin and have it mean the same thing (my grammar knowledge being what it is, I can’t say […]
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I try to keep this blog relevant, folks. I don’t post ads for my books, or bother you with too many of my short film works. But now and then, I just gotta make you aware of something that might have dropped off your radar.
There’s about eight seconds of Mandarin spoken in this film, which […]
I finished watching Zhang Yimou’s Not One Less last night and I spent the entire movie somewhat disoriented and pleasantly surprised. It was like a great magic trick, where you know there must be an illusion at work, but the reality of it is so convincing that you cannot fathom how they could fake such […]
As I mentioned in my last post, I was lucky enough to catch two Mandarin-language movies in the theater last week. That was a huge treat for me and I wanted to commemorate it by producing a new episode of Mandarin Mutterings, but time is simply against me this week. So instead, I’m going to […]
