My hero James Fallows is knowledgeable and skillful about so many things: he writes (1981 American Book Award for The National Defense), he flies, he talks politics with Guy Raz every Saturday on NPR, and blogs for The Atlantic about all of the above, plus software (he designed for Microsoft) , rhetoric (he wrote speeches for Jimmy Carter), China and Chinese language study. [He likes eChineselearning.com, I like Jenny Zhu, John, Ken, Connie, Lilliana and the crew at ChinesePod.com).
Today Fallows posted this wonderful Chinese hip hop video Zhong Guo Hua 中国话 (Chinese language)。 It celebrates the fact that so many people are learning Chinese (see text below the video). The director must have spent a lot of time at the Times Square subway station to pick up all these hip hop dance and gymnastics moves and rhythms. You would look a long time to find Americans who could mimic and spoof so well any Chinese cultural quirks.
ɡè zhǒnɡ yán sè de pí fū ɡè zhǒnɡ yán sè de tóu fɑ
各 种 颜 色 的 皮 肤 各 种 颜 色 的 头 发 （People with skin of all colours, people with hair of all colours）
zuǐ lǐ niàn de shuō de kāi shǐ liú xínɡ zhōnɡ ɡuó huà
嘴 里 念 的 说 的 开 始 流 行 中 国 话 （They speak the increasingly popular Chinese language. ）
duō shǎo nián wǒ men kǔ liàn yīnɡ wén fā yīn hé wén fǎ
多 少 年 我 们 苦 练 英 文 发 音 和 文 法 （For how many years have we slaved away at English pronunciation and grammar）
zhè jǐ nián huàn tā men juǎn zhe shé tou xué pínɡ shànɡ qù rù de biàn huà
这 几 年 换 他 们 卷 着 舌 头 学 平 上 去 入 的 变 化 （These few years, it's their turn to learn how to roll their tongues and learn the different intonations.） ...
hǎo cōnɡ mínɡ de zhōnɡ ɡuó rén hǎo yōu měi de zhōnɡ ɡuó huà
好 聪 明 的 中 国 人 好 优 美 的 中 国 话 （The Chinese are such smart people, and the Chinese language is so beautiful）
扁 担 想 绑 在 板 凳 上
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