Amy Adams on Speaking Mandarin
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Date: 2022-06-05
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kathleenmms
Ive been living in a mandarin speaking country for more than a year and the only thing I can confidently communicate is what food and coffee I want. Even then the locals have to ask me to repeat myself because if I dont sing it in the right tone it becomes a different word. I once asked for soup in my coffee because both are pronounced as tang but with a slight tonal shift. Ive studied 4 languages aside from English and mandarin is the most challenging so far.
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Ive been living in a mandarin speaking country for more than a year and the only thing I can confidently communicate is what food and coffee I want. Even then the locals have to ask me to repeat myself because if I dont sing it in the right tone it becomes a different word. I once asked for soup in my coffee because both are pronounced as tang but with a slight tonal shift. Ive studied 4 languages aside from English and mandarin is the most challenging so far.
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Silver54ful
I loved the film Arrival! It's actually tied with another film as my favorite from 2016.
It is unlikely to ever happen but I would die of happiness to meet Amy Adams. She is such a delightful lady. And her performance in Arrival was mesmerizing! But I've been a fan of her for years now. She doesn't let me down. She is just all around brilliant.
I also loved Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker in Arrival as well. :)
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I loved the film Arrival! It's actually tied with another film as my favorite from 2016.
It is unlikely to ever happen but I would die of happiness to meet Amy Adams. She is such a delightful lady. And her performance in Arrival was mesmerizing! But I've been a fan of her for years now. She doesn't let me down. She is just all around brilliant.
I also loved Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker in Arrival as well. :)
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YL
Ive got a solution for you, my American friends: start teaching your teenagers Mandarin in high school so that they wouldn't have to suffer so much when they get a job that involves speaking Mandarin. I'm sure there will be more and more jobs like this in the future.
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Ive got a solution for you, my American friends: start teaching your teenagers Mandarin in high school so that they wouldn't have to suffer so much when they get a job that involves speaking Mandarin. I'm sure there will be more and more jobs like this in the future.
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xiximoon
Embarrasing how Hollywood thought this was good Mandarin Chinese representation. Complete gibberish to native Chinese. It's not even a dialect or regional accent issue, it's just terrible.
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Embarrasing how Hollywood thought this was good Mandarin Chinese representation. Complete gibberish to native Chinese. It's not even a dialect or regional accent issue, it's just terrible.
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Michael
It wasn't the worst attempt at Mandarin by a non-Chinese actor that I've heard, but it's hard to understand and makes the fact that she's supposed to be a polyglot much harder to believe.
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It wasn't the worst attempt at Mandarin by a non-Chinese actor that I've heard, but it's hard to understand and makes the fact that she's supposed to be a polyglot much harder to believe.
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Will
She is one of my favorite American actresses and it's good to see her at least trying to speak those Mandarin lines as perfect as possible.
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She is one of my favorite American actresses and it's good to see her at least trying to speak those Mandarin lines as perfect as possible.
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Play-a-maker
I honestly thought the general was going to hang up on her because I couldn't interpret a single madarin word from what she said
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I honestly thought the general was going to hang up on her because I couldn't interpret a single madarin word from what she said
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