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Question for all who speak Chinese

posted 18 years ago by Ddey65
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I'm looking for anybody on this board who speaks Chinese; Which dialect of Chinese did Shen and Wendy's Grandmother speak in?

I'm going to want to know this before I correct the duplicate languages IMDb has listed.

[–] keviiinn 18 years ago

I didn't get a good listen, but it sounded like Mandarin

[–] sailboatsairplanes 18 years ago

im pretty sure it was mandarin
(im chinese, i speak cantonese, but i know what mandarin sounds like)
it sounded kinda bad though that part when they were speaking chinese, i couldnt exactly understand some parts. and i guess shin being japanese not chinese he couldnt speak it very well, becuase i couldn't understand him.

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[–] whitned 18 years ago

Even thousgh I don't speak chinese, I lived in China for 4 years. Gosh I wished I learned it. But I can tell the difference it sounded like poor mandarin. I lived In Shanghai.

[–] ZeRoRaVeN 18 years ago

Mandarin I'll say. I'm from the Cantonese dialect, but I recognized when the grandmother said "chi fan" as in eat rice or eat food.

[–] savagedamsel 18 years ago

They were speaking in Mandarin. I can speak it, but quite poorly, but my family speaks in Mandarin all the time.

[–] kai_h138 18 years ago

They spoke mandarin, cuz I could understand what they said.

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[–] tracia3520 18 years ago

It was Mandarin Chinese. My family and I speak it all the time. It was fairly good too, seeing as the guy who played the Chinese monk isn't even Chinese- he's Japanese.

[–] Killjoy_Fred 17 years ago

Yea...it was Mandarin Chinese...I'm Chinese and I can speak both Cantonese and Mandarin...and Taiwanese also...I thought that the Mandarin they spoke in this movie was better than the Cantonese that Steven Strait spoke in Sky High.

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[–] EdenParadise 14 years ago

I think Steven was SUPPOSED to sound bad in Sky High....

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[–] ErbacaM 17 years ago

It's pu3 tong1 hua4. As in, the official language in China. It isn't a regional dialect or whatever.

[–] snuffles_animagus 17 years ago

Yup, you're all right. *lives in China* :D Mandarin, or Pu Tong Hua.
But, um...in Mandarin, "thank you very much" is 'duo1 xie4' and the Grandmother said something else - which means exactly the same thing, mind you - but it was in another dialect (I hear my relatives saying that tons at New Years and stuff), I believe. Unless it's just an accent, and I'm completely mistaken.

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[–] beauty_fr_pain 17 years ago

hehe pu tong hua. :]

i am trying to learn chinese before i turn into a twinkie ^_^"

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