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Hi, you welcome to take away Chinese I'm your home in with Steve Hather lee in this studio.
Hello steve. Hello.
Hello, thanks for having me back one more time Always a pleasure having you here one more time See when we do the show Actually, when I'm doing takeaway Chinese, I share a lot of my, you know, personal detail with my friends on the internet, friends on the other side of the radio, you know, it's kind of like sharing a little bit in your life.
That's what we do, right.
Of course. Yeah. We would do that as radio hosts, we redo in podcasts, so we share our lives.
So I always ask personal questions to whoever's sitting in that chair.
And this one is a little bit personal, but I...
relationship with my mother Not going that far, of course, but I get that you're trying to say you're open to any questions Let's say almost any questions almost any questions.
Okay. So my question is actually much easier than that and much less personal If you know, my question is are you a fan of movies?
Are you a common moviegoer?
Yeah 100 % not to the theater.
Not so much Um, I, I think my issue with the theater is the proximity to a stranger.
It makes me feel weird sitting next to somebody that I don't know in such a cramped space for two hours.
I really enjoy watching movie in movie theaters because I'm not going to say I have ADHD or any kind of disorder.
I'm not going to say I cannot just do one thing at a time.
I have to do several things together simultaneously, yet I do have to admit when I'm watching a movie or any kind of TV shows at home, I tend to do more things.
I'll play with my phone a little bit.
I might be standing or running on a treadmill while I'm watching the show.
I might be playing a little bit of game, whatever.
So then what do you do in a theater?
Exactly. That's the thing when I'm in the theater, I'll have to concentrate solely on the movie, not only the effect of the sound, of the quality of the image is much better then at home when I am forced to focus I actually enjoy it much more I am more emerged into the whole plot and everything yeah I know what you mean we love movies but the trip to the theaters maybe once or twice a year for us but we watch a lot of movies at home we love to watch them and then discuss them from an artistic point of view from an ethical point of view from a comedic point of you if there happens to be any element
of comedy in the movie.
Just whatever happens to be in the film, we, my wife and I, we really liked sitting and talking about it afterwards.
Yes. The sharing part is also very interesting.
And another thing I really enjoy about watching a movie in the theater is that the climax of the movie or any kind of surprising element happens or laughing at a point you find it funny, you can sense people laughing with you.
You hear the gasp. And that feeling is also kind of nice.
I know exactly what you mean.
It's that shared experience.
Then, of course, you have the bigger screen, you have the better sound, and you have the delicious snacks.
What do you like to eat, by the way, when you watch your movie?
I'm very, very traditional.
I like popcorn and soda.
What flavor of popcorn?
A little bit salty, butter kind of flavor, but sometimes I wanted mixed.
The sweet ones and the savory ones.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
We love movies. So we're talking movies today.
We're talking about movies.
So how do you say movie in Chinese?
Do you know that? Perfect.
Dia means electric electricity, and yin, actually it's shadow.
Electric shadows. Yeah.
You see the electric shadows on the screen.
Yeah. That makes sense.
Makes a lot of sense.
And actually since we're talking about electric shadow, there's also electric image, which is tian shi.
Dien Shì. TV. Okay, right?
So I think they're basically the same thing.
It's just Dien Yīng, the Electric Shadow, is created a bit earlier than the Electric Vision, which leaves Electric Vision with no other choices when Dien Shì television actually came into being and people decided, hmm, let's find another name for it because we already gave the name to movies already.
And that also happens to some other phenomena or some other items in the Chinese language, in the Chinese society, because for example, do you know how to say bike in Chinese?
Zizhin -chiu. Zizhin -chiu.
Ziz means by itself.
Zing means move. Chiu is collective noun for car.
So, literally speaking, zizhin -chiu is automobile.
Uh, right, okay, so, and then bike would be like solo moving.
No, ziz means by itself, So it can't move on itself.
So it's literally auto Mobile.
And the problem is once you have that for a bike and then car happened and people are like, hmm.
Oh, that's we already have a name for this.
Exactly. That's the thing about different names in the Chinese language, especially those things that are created in the modern age in Chinese is sometimes you find that doesn't make a lot of sense.
But that was the reason behind this phenomena.
Because one came before the other.
So then movie theater would be 一那.
That's movie or film.
Yes. But what about the theater itself?
一那一那. 一那 can be, for example, a yard.
一那 or 希 that's a yard, but it can also be facility.
So 一那一那 is a movie facility.
Ehupidity is medical -related.
So a medical -related facility would be a hospital.
Or yang lao is elder care, an elder care facility would be a house.
Understood. So that's the idea.
So it's not that complicated I guess.
The logic leads from one to the other, for sure.
So today we're going to talk about movies, the experience in movie theaters, and also some other things that leads you to enjoy a movie, or something that movie experience would lead you to do.
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But now, let's provide you with some free Chinese for take away.
We've already provided you with some free Chinese.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, you can say now let's provide you with some more free Chinese for take away.
A lot more free Chinese.
So what are some free Chinese you'd like to take away?
Well, things related to films, of course.
Oh, sure. So we learned that a movie or a film is Tianying.
We learned that movie theater you just attach Yuan to the end of that.
Yes. So Tianying Yuan is a movie theater.
So let's talk about some of the people in the movies or making the movies.
Oh, of course. How do you say director?
Director would be Dao Yuen.
Dao Yuen? Yes. So, Dao means to direct or to guide.
Jie Dao would be to guide someone to do something, or direct someone into doing certain things.
Okay, and for example dào yò.
Yò is yào la tùr. So a dào yò is the person helping you.
Tour guide. Tour guide perfect.
And dào yè and yè means to act.
Ah, okay. I'll tell you how to act.
That would be your director.
The actor's guide. Actor's guide.
Who's the director?
That's the director.
So dào yè would be the one who's teaching you how to or telling you how to act and just like in English a director is not necessarily just the director to a movie it can be to a TV series it can be to a for example a gala that not people are not exactly acting yet you can use that Chinese term for those kind of director as well so just director.
Is this only related to this kind of guide you said it can be applied to a tour guide so I'm wondering if the name for teacher is like student guide, so dao, and then the word for student.
I appreciate the logic.
But not in this case.
Kinda in this case.
That's interesting because common teachers, like everyday teachers, for example, primary school teachers or even kindergarten teachers, all kinds of teachers, you can use the term lao shi teacher.
Lau shi. Lau actually means old, but in Chinese when you use the character 請 it's not always old it's more like respectful sometimes it's sometimes talking about experienced and sometimes meaning old or sometimes it's just long age yes yes so that's 請 is the teacher part so 請 yet there's also Dao shi.
Dao shi. Remember dao yan, the dao, and dao shi, the dao, same dao.
And dao shi would mean the kind of teacher that actually really guides you.
And that would be a more serious kind of guide.
Because for example, if you're in your postgraduate study or having your PhD, of course, you still take courses from many teachers, but there's this one teacher who would tell you what to study, would tell you guide you through the dissertation, helping you actually figure out the subject you're studying, and that person would be your dao shi.
That's a relatively narrow way of understanding this word, and if you take it into a bigger perspective, you can also say, he is my life guide.
So, this serious guiding you into a relatively bigger scope would require the Chinese word dàoxi.
So, that's Director...
That's Director, Dao Yan.
What about the people who do the acting?
You said that Yan is...
Acting. ... to act?
Yes. So, what would you call an actor?
Oh, that's a good question and I sense that you're already getting the essence of the forming of Chinese words, from characters.
It must be Yan, something.
Actually it's Yan Yuan.
Remember, we talked about Yuan being the person.
No, that's Yuan. Similar pronunciation, different tone, different character.
We've talked about the Chinese character Yuan in previous episodes using Yuan as a something something person, the person who is responsible for this matter so So, the person who acts would be yèn yuàn.
Hmm. Venezuela, the person who studies in this specific scenario would be the students, so shiàyuan, study people, shiàyuan, or fuu yuàn.
Fuu is serve, fuu yuàn, server, or waiter, waitress.
Okay. So, yuàn can refer or does refer to the person who is doing some thing.
The acting. case. It's the person who's doing the acting and to act is yan, soo, yan yuan.
Yan yuan. Yes, perfect.
Yan yuan. That would be actor or actress.
And like in a lot of other cases in the Chinese language, yan yuan is not gender -specific.
If you want to be gender -specific, you say nan yuan, or nyuan yuan.
So guy, actor, or girl, actor.
I've learned that when you're at a restaurant and you want to call the server that you should say Pooyan, Pooyan, pooyan, yes okay now I understand why, so when I learned that I wasn't told anything why so they said just say that and I said okay so I did it and it worked but I didn't understand the meaning behind it, so now I know that it means to serve and the person who's doing the serving.
Yes. Can that be for a man or a woman?
Both, yes. Understood.
When it comes to profession or occupation in Chinese, we rarely have something that is gender -specific.
That's I think a role or an observation.
That's convenient, isn't it?
In the Chinese language, yes, yes.
So, that would be an actor or actress and I think One thing I'd like to share is that when people love movies, sometimes they follow the movies of a certain director, sometimes they just really like a certain actor -actress, and you can say, so the shadow or actually here first to the movie, Mii is a fan.
So I'm a big fan of yours, I am a big fan of your movie.
Oh. Okay. So teach me again how to say, I'm a fan of I am is the movie.
Is fan. So, for example, if you're a fan of a movie, you're a If you're a fan of song, you're If you're a fan of a book or a certain series of book, you are are words.
you cannot really separate them into a structure of a sentence I see okay so do you follow a director or do you follow an actor or an actress when you're choosing your movies no I don't I just watch everything everything yeah that's good do you get upset if you if the movie that you watch is not good sure everybody does no I don't you don't no see my wife can't understand this I can enjoy almost any movie and the reason I enjoy almost any movie is because even if the story doesn't speak to me even if the acting isn't amazing I can still appreciate the work that went into the making of that artistic
project it doesn't mean that I need to love it so at the end of a movie if I don't really like it I just say okay then not not bad not bad I guess.
It takes a lot for me to say wow that was terrible, I will never watch another movie from that director ever again or something like that.
I have a very very high tolerance for poor films.
Well I think sometimes if the movie is too boring I will find the story telling not good enough then I cannot tolerate it that's one thing and another kind of occasion that can upset me would be when it's inappropriate for me and the person I'm going to the movie with.
So for instance, my husband and I went to see La La Land in Valentine's Day and we were like, if you're putting the movie about a previous couple who are clearly still in love with each other, yeah, they're already with their current partner and you're putting the movie on theater on Valentine's Day you are aiming at upsetting people you know I see I see funny you mentioned that movie because it's a good movie no that is what that is one of the movies that I really don't like they start singing immediately immediately on the highway of all places nobody sings on the highway and give me five minutes
of dialogue before you start singing a song please that's all i ask now i realize maybe i am more critical than i thought i was, see take away chinese would want you to release yourself on the show.
you know though when i visited los angeles i i was hanging out do you remember near the end of la la land they were in a jazz bar yes yeah i was in that place wow yeah well not really wow actually it's just Yeah, it's just a normal like pub restaurant next to the next to the wall Still with the glare of the movie and if you really like it lala that is the it's a poor example in this scenario Yeah, if you really like the movie if I really like the movie I would love to go to where it's shot It's the magic of film though in the movie.
It looks like such a cool mysterious like bar whatever the vibe.
No, no vibe. It's just like a regular place.
But there's pictures on the wall of like them shooting there.
So it's kind of cool.
I guess it's kind of cool.
And for me, because I am not a native here in Beijing.
Actually I came here around 10 years ago and I started to stay here.
And I've watched a lot of different movies and different TV shows before coming here and walking in those aged homes the first time walking in the Forbidden City right go go in the first time walking in the summer Palace it's really magical to me yeah having seen that before you get there and especially when you see that in a movie before you get yeah yeah it makes it more special I guess I think I would have felt more excited about visiting that place in Los Angeles if I had enjoyed the movie yeah that's what I'm talking about A good movie has to be in the equation.
Yeah, and by the way, if you're listening and you love La La Land, please don't be offended.
Please! Most people do love that movie.
It's a good movie! It's just for me, I was a bit, you know, awkward.
I was like, should I be thinking about my, you know, exes right now, but I really love my husband and we're in a good relationship, but is he thinking about his ex because of the movie?
It's just a weird moment, you know?
I guarantee he was not, I guarantee he wasn't.
By the way, what's his name again?
Ryan Gosling. Yeah.
I don't need to watch him sing.
You are critical. It's like Les Misérables.
You know, when Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe are singing.
I felt like, why? Don't sing.
Don't do that. Exactly.
Just use your words.
That's enough for me.
But you know, movie is such a powerful and interesting art because in a movie, you can literally do anything.
It can be a fantasy.
You can travel in time, you can include any kind of element as long as it makes sense in a good movie, in your movie, and you can even..
I think I've seen an actor acting with an animated character.
Oh yes, of course. Right?
And or if you want to do a really good..
Well, recently, no jian r.
That is a really good very successful and actually a good story and it's an animation.
I'm still trying to watch that movie you should definitely go that's a good movie that movie does not remind you of bad things happening your life or sometimes it's just you know some challenges it will remind you of the challenges you meet in life yet it will inspire you to figure out some better ways to deal with the problems I think it's a really good movie by the way speaking about you know traveling to different worlds and and those types of things in film they use special effects how do you say special effects in Chinese wha shop to show up means special so to a shoe special show is so cool
so literally special effect oh literally this two is always meaning special like the special occasion with the same to be yes you can you can use the same to but that's the thing in Chinese sometimes you can find a word for an English word sometimes you can find a word for two English words for example special effect yet in Chinese it's just one word tü he shiào but like you said a special occasion in Chinese that would be two words tühe shu de shu jian tühe shu jin quàn so it's more like tühe shu in itself means special and you can use tühe shu for some other because in English for instance you
You can say a special in a restaurant.
Yes, right. In Chinese, it can be a set.
It can also be a special recommendation, but we do not really have a very specific word for special in the sense that a special in a restaurant.
So that's the thing about different languages, I think.
So special effect would be Guêxiào And in a lot of good movies, you can see the Guêxiào happening, I think it's a vice versa scenario, because we've already discussed the traveling to the places where the movie is made can be quite magical.
Sometimes, seeing a scene that you're very familiar with, but with some special effect happening in the very common, very familiar kind of setting is also very interesting.
So it's a different direction of interesting.
I think seeing a place that you've never been before is cool too.
The example that I'm thinking of is the film Rush Hour.
We call him Jackie Chan.
Yes. Rush Hour was filmed I think the opening scene was in Hong Kong or something like that.
Oh, yes, yes. But seeing that, I had never been to Hong Kong before and I didn't know that that was Hong Kong in the opening of the film, but it made me look it up, right?
So, I think when you have cool places on display in films for people that have never been to those locations, it can inspire them to look up where that is and go and want to go.
Yeah. Yes. Have you ever watched any Chinese films that you think worth mentioning?
Oh, I mean, when I watched Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, that was a great film.
And that was really popular in Western countries too.
And it was just something that I had never seen before, really.
You know, maybe I'm not an expert on Chinese films at all.
I can't say I've even really seen any yet, but that style of filmmaking, you know, that kind of mystery and other -worldly, you know, people being able to fly and things like that, I'd never seen anything like that before.
So I thought it was beautiful.
And the setting was beautiful too, you know, in this kind of mysterious forest.
And yeah, with bamboo.
Yeah. And that's the thing.
I think for a lot of Chinese movies, not only can you see Chinese actors and also the story, There's also the very Chinese and Eastern style aesthetic.
The setting of the background, the clothing the matching of different colors.
And for Wu Huchonglong, that's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Wu Huchonglong, that's the movie, it's not only about specific locations it's made.
It's more like if you go visit traditional Chinese gardens, if you go to a tourist attraction in China that is not that commercialized.
You can see that vibe.
That kind of way of understanding and creating beauty, is deeply rooted in Chinese people's heart.
And that's why in a lot of different places, you can kind of feel the same vibe.
Yeah. It's interesting too because you being from China would see that film through a different lens, right?
As someone who has never been to China before or has no experience with Chinese culture or Chinese films at all, it would mean something to you that it probably wouldn't mean to someone viewing something Chinese for the first time, right?
But that doesn't mean it would be viewed poorly just from a different angle.
Just so many templates, so many readers scenario.
Exactly. That was a great movie.
An -Li, right? Also, there are many places in China.
Since we're on the topic, I'd like to recommend to those of you who have or have not watched a movie made in those places, Beijing for sure, we've mentioned Beijing several times.
If you are thinking about traditional Chinese movies or movies featuring the stories happened in ancient China You would definitely want to come to China come to Beijing or also come to Xi and those are some very historical places.
At the same time I don't know if you know this but if you're a fan of Avatar actually Zhang Jiajie National Park, right?
Yeah. Right, right, right, right.
Jang Zajir National Park in Hunan, Central China, is one of the most beautiful parks in the world.
The mountains stand like swords, the peaks like small elevating territories that emerged from the clouds below.
And these, actually the unique landscape caught the attention of James Cameron and he traveled here to find inspiration for, you know, Avadar.
So if you go visit Zhang Jiajie, you might feel a little bit of a similarity.
Yeah, and that was actually number one or number two on my places to visit here in the country.
It's so popular with tourists, and I was going to go during one of the national holidays.
You should. Oh, during a national holiday.
Oh, no, you should have.
That's why everybody, they were like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, don't go there during a national holiday, use your own time.
Use your own time, yeah.
Because of the sheer number of people that would be traveling there at the time.
Yeah, I can't wait to see it though.
It looks stunning. Yeah, and previously I've posted some photos of different places in China and asked my internet friends whether or not they would like to visit.
And some friends said, give me a Chinese visa so I can go to these beautiful places.
Yeah right. But I have to say, actually we have a stay here for 240 hours policy.
allowing you to stay without a visa.
So the visa -free policy, take advantage of it, you know?
Really, really do so.
Come over, enjoy, and one other place I would like to recommend would be Guilin.
Guilin. Guilin actually is a very, very beautiful place because in Chinese we have a saying, so it means...
I heard water in there somewhere, is it near a lake?
Shanshu means mountain and water.
So it's like the landscape in Guilin is one of the top among the world.
So it's a really beautiful place.
And the reason I'm mentioning it today is that I only just found out that the movie Star Wars Episode 3, Revenge of the Sith.
actually it was filmed using Guilin's Karst lens.
No way! It's actually marking the first time these unique formations appeared in a western movie.
Wow. I've seen that movie but I didn't know it was shot there.
Yes so a lot of beautiful places here and if you like the movies, if you like the scenes in those movies, come over you would enjoy it even more 100 % true.
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