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[FLEABttn]

For all your Yatta needs:

http://www.mit.edu/people/patil/yatta.html

(Edited by FLEABttn at 6:48 pm on Mar. 3, 2002)

 

[jim993]

knew it got to love the skater girls

 

[Mysticales]

Cyn - Thx but normally i dont smile. This was a pic I took for a friend.....im very "unemotional" I keep hearing....anways....Its all your fault I posted my pic lol

Rat - Cute, dark side...I like it lol

 

[Cecilia Chen]

Da jia hao, Hello everyone!

Im sure most people won't know any chinese actors outside Jackie Chan or Jet Li. Just the same, Im sure you won't know many Chinese singers.

But one Chinese singer im sure everyone knows is Faye because she sings so good that japanese company Square paid her to sing in Final Fantasy.

If I played a song she sings im sure you'd shrug, but if I played the Final Fantasy song im sure people would know what I mean.

She's been my favorate singer long before she sang for Square, so here is a sound bite with the FF Square song, another song in Mandarin, another song in Cantonese. Im sure a bunch of people can't tell she's Chinese from her FF song because she sings EVEN English so perfectly compared to her Chinese, but Square asked her to sing some English, so she did.

Anyway here is the bite I did:

http://www.geocities.com/cecilia_chen0110/faye.mp3

English part --> For all my english speaking friends.

Mandarin.Ch --> MasterAkumaMatata

Cantonese.Ch --> JCTango

The quality is really low since I compressed it. She sounds alot better.

Have fun!

 

[eatpenguin]

plus, her name translates to 'queen'

she did a really nice queen cover (bohemian rhapsody)

go download it!!!!

 

[Trenton net]

Ya I like a lot of faye's Chinese songs.

 

[Ratamahatta]

I wasnt pissed off, just very tired, plus my eyes were shutting on me, boo!! ah well it was the best I could deliver. Sorry to dissapoint so many people.

 

[JCTango]

Thanks Cecilia

 But i think Faye is a better Mandarin singer than either English or Cantonese

 

[ShinJedah]

Quote: from Cecilia Chen on 12:37 am on Mar. 4, 2002

Da jia hao, Hello everyone!

Im sure most people won't know any chinese actors outside Jackie Chan or Jet Li.

I watch many chinese movies....but i don't know the actors names....i don't even know the whole hollywood actors names so i think thats nothing bad

 

[Cecilia Chen]

ShinJedah --> You said you watched a lot of Chinese movies? Like what?

BTW, I said "Im sure most people won't know any chinese actors outside Jackie Chan or Jet Li.". This is still true since even if you watch Chinese movies you wouldn't know who's who or what the heck is going on.

Just to let you know I don't consider English subs knowing whats going on. English subs are so so so dumb. Their idea of subs is like this....

Chinese --> "One body, to one mind... One teacher to one student"

English --> "You bastered! Your gonna die you p....."

Its totaly usless. Its a joke!

 

[jim993]

i thought you didn't have to in your language cecilia

 

[Cecilia Chen]

jim993 --> Sorry, I don't quite follow you. I mean for those who can't understand Chinese or read it. I assume you'd watch those movies only if they had English subs, and English subs are really poor.

 

[Fabrizo]

Would you be suggesting english dubs over subs then Cecilia?

 

[jim993]

i ment the word "to" i thought there wasn't the word "to" in chinese just as i didn't think there was "the" or any of those linking/joining words but i only have a crude understanding of how the language works(such as no past,present, future tenses, no singular plural and so on).

 

[Gallstaff]

This has really turned into a more "lets talk chinese" thread

 

[jim993]

well everyone that was going to post a pic has already done so. so what else is there to talk about besides getting superficial and talking about how everyone looks or talk about something that was brought up and that is the chinese language.

 

[Gallstaff]

good point.

 

[ShinJedah]

Quote: from Cecilia Chen on 1:24 pm on Mar. 4, 2002

ShinJedah --> You said you watched a lot of Chinese movies? Like what?

BTW, I said "Im sure most people won't know any chinese actors outside Jackie Chan or Jet Li.". This is still true since even if you watch Chinese movies you wouldn't know who's who or what the heck is going on.

Just to let you know I don't consider English subs knowing whats going on. English subs are so so so dumb. Their idea of subs is like this....

Chinese --> "One body, to one mind... One teacher to one student"

English --> "You bastered! Your gonna die you p....."

Its totaly usless. Its a joke!

Does anybody know this movie called Beyond Hyperthermia or what it is called?I loved this....i watch many action movies...anyone know the Cover Hard series?I watch movies anyway i can....even if i don't undestand anything....chinese movies have such a strange feeling.

 

[Cecilia Chen]

Strange? How so?

 

[JCTango]

i agree with Cecilia. If you understand Chinese, then watching those English subtitles flash underneath the action just makes you wanna pee your pants

For some reason, foreign languages never ever translate into English with the proper context lol

One of my favorite HK movies was "Dough Wong" (My version of Gwai Lo Cantonese Pronunciation) It's a movie about this Chinese Casino High Roller with special powers =) I don't know what that guy's name is... ...something Sing i think... Cecilia? Can you clear that up? Hehe... yep

this is becoming a different thread. Maybe we should start a new thread instead of this one...