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It probably isn't even necessary to have the coupon to be honest. Because if you said that you had the coupon at home and just stood there like tank man until you got your ten percent off, we're pretty sure that McDonald's would just give you the discount. Or you could be creative write a coupon for your own business right on the spot. Add as many zeroes as you'd like.
new_rizzo
 said on
May 25, 2013
1) excellent format for a lesson. Very much appreciated.

2) the commercial is comically schmaltzy. Watch it three times and you risk diabetes.

3) please reassure me that Chinese pop culture will eventually trend towards acrid cynicism.

4) the soaring strings arrangement on the music is redonkulous

5) how is 10% off a chicken sandwich worth advertising?
daniel.trevi
 said on
May 26, 2013
Wait a minute! Now she has a child, and presumably, at least in China, a husband. And she will leave her husband for "true love," which means 10% off a chicken sandwich?
Echo
 said on
May 27, 2013
@daniel.trevi,

Hey nice to see you in our comment section!

Hmm... that's a tough choice, but we don't see her husband in the video....

--Echo

echo@popupchinese.com
孔瑞
 said on
May 28, 2013
@Echo

Great new video lessons, 你们网站太牛啦! And new_rizzo, I don't see acrid cynicism anywhere near on the horizon (in ads at least) but I did see an awesome 7up ad recently including a 李刚 look-alike so there is hope!
康力行
 said on
May 29, 2013
@daniel.trevi

Just because there's a goalie doesn't mean you can't score!

Hmm...what would the chinese translation be for that?

dragonfly
 said on
May 30, 2013
Love the new videos! 啪啪中文，你们是最真棒！

that said, I just want to say how much I despise McDonalds and all the garbage they produce. Hopefully there is a mandarin version of the documentary "Supersize Me" out there in the great Middle kingdom (not good for 气 ）。
deanbarr
 said on
May 31, 2013
A great way to learn Chinese, many thanks, Echo, but I know of several off the books Qing Dynasty punishments for whoever wrote that ridiculous ad.
samantatara
 said on
June 26, 2013
The videos never work, I am in China so I turn my VPN off when using pop-up-Chinese. Then I try again by turning it on and going on youtube. Nothing works. I checked my settings. It's really frustrating. Had I known it was going to be that tough to study Chinese (which is already hard to study) I would have never bought the membership to this site.
trevelyan
 said on
June 26, 2013
@samantatara,

If you're in China, the easiest way is to visit your settings page and change the streaming mode to "China", as that will serve the videos from Youku instead of Youtube and avoid the entire trans-Pacific lag. If you're still having trouble and can send us an email (service@popupchinese.com) with details on your browser and OS we can try to replicate and maybe will be able to offer some help.

And we really don't want you frustrated and are always happy to offer a refund. If you're unhappy just email us and ask for it. It's not a big deal.

Best,

--david
samantatara
 said on
June 26, 2013
Ok I am sorry for the rude comment, I let the frustration take over. I'll get in touch with your team. Thanks David.

Sam
huyilin
 said on
June 27, 2013
Could any iPad users (generation 2 and above) let me know whether they are able to watch any of the videos? It's to figure out whether my inability to watch them has anything to do with my still using the 1st generation or whether it's something else. Will update to the new device when it comes available. Thank you!

Also still no luck on the iMac. The site FluentU has their videos all running with a very similar set-up. That is where I am going in the meantime. Other than that still faithful to my PopUp.
trevelyan
 said on
June 27, 2013
@huyilin,

Just to share an update, right now the Youku videos seem to work in all browsers and on all devices. If anyone is running into these problems, one possibility is to try and change your settings to stream from mainland China. I don't know if this is workable given the lag.

By contrast, the Youtube videos work on every desktop browser save Safari on the Mac, where the issue seems relatively new (someone else is running into it here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17241230/youtube-api-player-no-longer-works-on-safari). The last time I checked my iPad (purchased 1+ years ago) supported the videos but my iPhone (relatively new) does not.

Normally it's tough for us to debug the Youtube issues from Beijing, as the Pacific lag makes the loading speeds too slow to effectively debug. I'm in Hong Kong right now and will be here for the next few days, so am hoping to hack away at these problems to the extent possible. That said, I'm not sure how much progress I'll be able to make since the issue seems specific to the Youtube API and that is a bit of a black box for outside developers.
huyilin
 said on
June 27, 2013
Thanks, David for looking into this.
sharpe888
 said on
July 3, 2013
I'm think the commercial is supposed to be intentionally cheesy. I can just imagine the smartass comments it generated on weibo.

"please reassure me that Chinese pop culture will eventually trend towards acrid cynicism."

hm, I hope it doesn't..
dangilles
 said on
August 15, 2013
我不太明白，她为什么误以为有“零”的优惠券不行？或者是说，这样的优惠券有什么特色？
Echo
 said on
August 17, 2013
@dangilles,

因为那些优惠券都不是麦当劳的，这个女孩不知道有“零”的优惠券也可以在麦当劳享受优惠。

--Echo

echo@popupchinese.com
menevets
 said on
June 20, 2014
Video is gone. Here's another one though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90AvGNGd1ec
hoaregroup
 said on
July 16, 2014
Also no video . Htc mobile ??

Mark Lesson Studied
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