Our film clip for this week is surprisingly topical, and probably a bit more difficult than you may be used to. It also has a number of revealing clues though, and once you identify it we think you'll know why we picked it. So take a listen and if you think you know our mystery film get your guess in to echo@popupchinese.com for a chance to win free week of premium access to Popup Chinese.
orbital
said on July 4, 2009
Speaking of explosive films, Transformers II has just hit the cinemas down here. I intend to take an afternoon off work one of these days and head into one of the air-conditioned megaplexes down here.
Another piecemeal step in my efforts to keep myself entertained now that The Big Heat has come. Hopefully they'll have a Chinese dub. That could be fun.
barrister
said on July 5, 2009
busy gorging myself on ribs when I check Google Reader and I run into this. very apropos. kudos and happy Independence Day!
卡梅罗
said on July 7, 2009
"Thats not entirely accurate....."
orbital
said on July 7, 2009
ha ha - check out the top search result for "That's not entirely accurate". Our new hive mind is awesome.
barrister
said on July 7, 2009
Unrelated, but I ran into this today and wanted to share it here in case others would find it useful. I don't think there is anything terribly unexpected here since you would expect some sort of mental development, but scientists have found that learning Chinese significantly alters grey matter density in parts of the minds of non-native adult Chinese learners:
Study finds Chinese changes the brain of even non-native speakers
Really interesting stuff, and probably relevant to just about everyone at this site.
The article is short, but claims this part of the brain is linked to tone perception. Which would help explain why so many people have such difficulty perceiving tones when they start studying. I know that I struggled with the third tone for a long, long time before finally figuring it out (or getting close enough it stopped being a problem....)
xiaoxin
said on July 7, 2009
我好像没看过这个电影
mat
said on July 7, 2009
Measure word for 电影 is 部 I believe?
Hrm, what do the Chinese called measure words? Always seems such a clumsy classification in English.
menglelan
said on July 8, 2009
measure words = 量词
mat
said on July 8, 2009
谢谢！
Gail天堂的声音
said on July 8, 2009
量词（liàngcí）
Film Friday
said on July 10, 2009
Answer: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116629/Congrats to everyone who got this. And a happy belated Independence Day to all of you Americans out here with us in China!
