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Question Regarding the Cast


This may sound stupid, but for anyone in the know, did any of the voice actors/actresses have to actually learn Chinese for this show?

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They probably just have linguists to teach it to the actors on the spot before the recordings. It'd be ridiculous to get them to learn the language fluently just to have them say a few words here and there or just short sentences. The ones who do have full lines of Chinese dialogue seem to be the Chinese actors, so they probably already know Chinese. Though, I think that the girl who plays Kai-Lan might be adopted by a white family, so who knows if she knows Chinese or not. Or, maybe she's mixed and she learned Chinese from her Chinese parent (mother?).

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