Everything and the Kitchen Sink

[dangermousie]

Watching all these Asian shows made me have a few questions. I know Mandarin and Cantonese are two different languages, even though they use the same symbols. But are they different merely in the way they pronounce things, or how? Are they like Russian and Ukrainian, where if you speak one, you can get the gist of the other, or are they like Arabic

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[catdecember]

weeeeeeee caps! weeee Goong Love!

Mandarin is the official chinese language, a big percentage of chinese speak it, but not all do since there are a LOT of other chinese languages (fookien, shanghainese etc). Cantonese is spoken in Hong Kong, where the accent is more hard and fast, while Mandarin is more less accentuated. this is from someone who has sort of developed an ear for differentiating the 2 languages even i don't speak either one. i've just seen too many chinese movies, and being filipino, there's always a slight 10% that one would have chinese descendants.

in taiwan though, they speak mandarin. but they also have taiwanese - a native language which has a different pronounciation. vic knows to speak this, i believe this is one of the reasons he had a difficult time speaking proper mandarin, until lately.

and f4 trivia: vanness (mei zhou in MG) doesnt read nor write in chinese, he speaks mandarin but had to go to train for it, and reads it in romanji , not in characters. ;)

[dangermousie]

Thanks for the language break down. One of my really good friends is Cantonese, and though she is obviously fluent in it, she doesn't really understand Mandarin.

vic knows to speak this, i believe this is one of the reasons he had a difficult time speaking proper mandarin, until lately.

Interesting! (I obviously can't hear any difference. The same with Bolly movies where native speakers are always 'so and so did a spot on Punjabi speech' but it all sounds the same to me. Really wish I knew a dozen languages).

he speaks mandarin but had to go to train for it, and reads it in romanji , not in characters. ;)

What does he normally speak then?

[catdecember]

Really wish I knew a dozen languages

ditto.

Vanness aka Mei Zhou is american. he migrated to taiwan more than 5 years ago to start his singing/acting career. when he speaks english, you wouldnt even know he spoke mandarin. *lol*

[dangermousie]

Cool. Thanks!

[catdecember]

btw, your favorite MARS scene? i love that too. it always gives me shivers... ;)

have you finished Goong?

[dangermousie]

I've only started Goong, actually. I've been finishing rewatching Mars first.

I also love the scene when she tells him about being raped but that's not sweet, it's angsty :)

[catdecember]

re: Goong - i'm a Shin-CG camper. hehe. ;)

[dangermousie]

Aren't they the couple who end up together? I tend to root for those :)

[ameyadevi]

whoa! Goong looks awesome!! definately going to look into that when i'm done with the currently subbed Silence eps. I would be done already but for some reason each video is taking FOREVER to load. I'm getting there though. I really like it.. thank you for introducing a whole new fandom to me :D. Weee!

[dangermousie]

Ohhh, I am so excited you like it! All of Goong (I think, I am not done yet), is on youtube, subbed.

And yeah, Silence vids are a bit sticky. For some reason the only one I couldn't get to work in about forver was part 3 op ep 1. The rest got there sooner or later.

[ameyadevi]

yay! I hope they aren't as slow as silence. i did get that part 3 to load after a REALLY long time. I'm on part 5/7 of episode two.. then i'll start on Goong. XD

[ameyadevi]

oh & the guy... I have yet to really get the names other than shenshen down.. but the one she lives with.. OMG! His crush on her is THE cutest thing ever! Whoever that actor is does a perfect job on it.. he's just so adorable protecting her and smiling when she's not looking and just Awwwww! :D And the other guy Qi Yen..soemthing something (i'll get it one of these days) is quite handsome :D

[ex_beautyof]

Hi sweetie I haven't received an email from you, so I can give you my adresse. I hope I didn't type my email wrong for you the last time.
Its: sweetseb24@yahoo.dk.

[dangermousie]

Yup, will email you within the hour. Sorry!

you watch bollywood movies?

[anonymous]

wow...i just ended up on your blog because i was looking into goong...and i discovered that you not only like manwah but indian bollywood movies as well? i find that a very interesting combination...I'm the same myself! i feel like we have a lot in common so please feel free to email me at magirekomu_zaiten@yahoo.com. I would love to discuss indian movies and anime with you!

Re: you watch bollywood movies?

[dangermousie]

Yup, love Bollywood and Asian dramas. A bunch of people on my friendslist are the same.

You should totally get an LJ account!